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Incysted :: Incysted (a.) See Encysted.

Cyst :: Cyst (n.) A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which is accidentally developed in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ..

Ovicyst :: Ovicyst (n.) The pouch in which incubation takes place in some Tunicata.

Cist :: Cist (n.) See Cyst.

Aerocyst :: Aerocyst (n.) One of the air cells of algals.

Polycystidea :: Polycystidea (n. pl.) A division of Gregarinae including those that have two or more internal divisions of the body.

Cystidea :: Cystidea (n. pl.) An order of Crinoidea, mostly fossils of the Paleozoic rocks. They were usually roundish or egg-shaped, and often unsymmetrical; some were sessile, others had short stems..

Cystidean :: Cystidean (n.) One of the Cystidea.

Cholecystis :: Cholecystis (n.) The gall bladder.

Nematocalyx :: Nematocalyx (n.) One of a peculiar kind of cups, or calicles, found upon hydroids of the family Plumularidae. They contain nematocysts. See Plumularia..

Polycystid :: Polycystid (n.) One of the Polycystina.

Monocystic :: Monocystic (a.) Of or pertaining to a division (Monocystidea) of Gregarinida, in which the body consists of one sac..

Hypnocyst :: Hypnocyst (n.) A cyst in which some unicellular organisms temporarily inclose themselves, from which they emerge unchanged, after a period of drought or deficiency of food. In some instances, a process of spore formation seems to occur within such cysts..

Encystment :: Encystment (n.) A process by which many internal parasites, esp. in their larval states, become inclosed within a cyst in the muscles, liver, etc. See Trichina..

Hepatocystic :: Hepatocystic (a.) Of or pertaining to the liver and gall bladder; as, the hepatocystic ducts..

Ctenocyst :: Ctenocyst (n.) An organ of the Ctenophora, supposed to be sensory..

Cysticercus :: Cysticercus (n.) The larval form of a tapeworm, having the head and neck of a tapeworm attached to a saclike body filled with fluid; -- called also bladder worm, hydatid, and measle (as, pork measle)..

Acephalocyst :: Acephalocyst (n.) A larval entozoon in the form of a subglobular or oval vesicle, or hydatid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin..

Cystocele :: Cystocele (n.) Hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes; vesical hernia.

Cystine :: Cystine (n.) A white crystalline substance, C3H7NSO2, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasionally found as a sediment in urine..

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