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cyst  (sst)

n.

1. Pathology An abnormal membranous sac containing a gaseous, liquid, or semisolid substance.

2. Anatomy A sac or vesicle in the body.

3. Biology A small capsulelike sac that encloses certain organisms in their dormant or larval stage.

4. Botany A thick-walled resting spore, as in certain algae or fungi.

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[New Latin cystis, from Greek kustis, bladder; see kwes- in Indo-European roots.]

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cyst [sist]

Noun

1. Pathol an abnormal membranous sac containing fluid or diseased matter

2. Anat any normal sac in the body [Greek kustis pouch, bag]

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cyst  (sst)

1. An abnormal membranous sac in the body, containing a gaseous, liquid, or semisolid substance.

2. A small, capsulelike form of certain organisms that develops in response to adverse or extreme conditions. Under adverse conditions, for instance, dinoflagellates form nonmotile resting cysts that fall to the ocean or lake bottom and can remain there for years before reviving. Certain invertebrates, such as the water bear (phylum Tardigrada), also develop cysts.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	cyst - a closed sac that develops abnormally in some body structure dermoid cyst - a cystic tumor (usually benign) with a wall lined with epithelium and a cavity containing other material galactocele - a cystic tumor containing milk or a milky substance (especially in the mammary glands) blood cyst, hematocyst, hemorrhagic cyst - a cyst containing blood hydatid - cyst filled with liquid; forms as a result of infestation by tapeworm larvae (as in echinococcosis) nabothian cyst, nabothian follicle - a cyst that forms in the nabothian glands of the uterine cervix ovarian cyst - a cystic tumor (usually benign) of the ovary ranula - a cyst on the underside of the tongue pilar cyst, sebaceous cyst, steatocystoma, wen - a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked pathology - any deviation from a healthy or normal condition
	2.	cyst - a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid) vesicle dacryocyst, lacrimal sac, tear sac - either of the two dilated ends of the lacrimal ducts at the nasal ends of the eyes that fill with tears secreted by the lacrimal glands dictyosome, Golgi apparatus, Golgi body, Golgi complex - a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions) sac - a structure resembling a bag in an animal bleb, bulla, blister - (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid follicle - any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity liposome - an artificially made microscopic vesicle into which nucleic acids can be packaged; used in molecular biology as a transducing vector

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cyst

noun sac, growth, blister, wen, vesicle

Translations

cyst [sɪst] n → quiste m

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cyst [sɪst] n → kyste m

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cyst [sɪst] n → Zyste f

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cyst [sɪst] n → cisti f inv