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noun

Pathology. a closed, bladderlike sac formed in animal tissues, containing fluid or semifluid matter.

a bladder, sac, or vesicle.

Botany, Mycology.

a sporelike cell with a resistant, protective wall.

a cell or cavity enclosing reproductive bodies.

Zoology.

a sac, usually spherical, surrounding an animal that has passed into a dormant condition.

such a sac plus the contained animal.

a capsule or resistant covering.

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Origin:
1705–15; < Neo-Latin cystis < Greek kýstis bag, pouch, the bladder; akin to kŷma cyma

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Surgical drainage of the pseudocyst, which involves making a connection between the cyst and the stomach or small intestine.

The cyst has not gotten smaller, but it hasn't gotten bigger either.

Many hours later the neurologist called and told me the shadow indicated a cyst and not to worry.

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Surgical drainage of the pseudocyst, which involves making a connection between the cyst and the stomach or small intestine.

The cyst has not gotten smaller, but it hasn't gotten bigger either.

Many hours later the neurologist called and told me the shadow indicated a cyst and not to worry.

The patient is a scientist, undismayed by the sight of her own internal anatomy, and eager to be rid of the cyst on her finger.

If the egg is not expelled, fluids and other substances can build up inside the follicle, forming a follicular cyst.

My brother still has a scar on his neck from removal of a tubercular cyst.

His head is shaved from a recent surgery to remove a cyst.

The exact action that triggers cyst formation is unknown.

If the cyst is never eaten, then its genetic material falls out of the gene pool.

The cyst was found to be cancerous, but doctors said that it was small and confined to the kidney.

If the cyst starts interfering with your speech or ability to eat.

For example, when doctors feel a growth or cyst in the thyroid, they can probe it with a skinny needle.

Villazón's managers said that the tenor needed surgery as soon as possible to remove a cyst from his vocal cords.

Denmark described his headaches, the cyst on his head and his troubles.

Surgeons removed the kidney last week after doctors found what was described at the time as a cyst.

He also said it was a cyst caused by tuberculosis, not a cancerous tumor.

Joseph's cyst contracted and then began to grow again.

In the right temporal lobe of his brain, surgeons found a cyst filled with an ounce of dark yellow fluid.

Antibiotic eye drops are usually used several days before and after the cyst is removed.

Yes, she had a form of spina bifida, as well as a cyst on her spine.

Then came kidney surgery for a malignant cyst and repeated back.

Two years later surgeons removed a cancerous cyst from his kidney.

Martin discovered she had uterine fibroids and an ovarian cyst.

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variant of cysto-, before a vowel: cystectomy.

variant of cysto-, as final element in a compound word: statocyst.

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cyst (sɪst)

—n
1.	pathol any abnormal membranous sac or blisterlike pouch containing fluid or semisolid material
2.	anatomy any normal sac or vesicle in the body
3.	a thick-walled protective membrane enclosing a cell, larva, or organism

[C18: from New Latin cystis, from Greek kustis pouch, bag, bladder]

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Word Origin & History

cyst

1713, from Mod.L. cystis, from Gk. kystis "bladder, pouch."

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Medical Dictionary

cyst (sĭst)
n.

An abnormal membranous sac containing a gaseous, liquid, or semisolid substance.
A sac or vesicle in the body.
A small capsulelike sac that encloses certain organisms in their dormant or larval stage.

cyst- pref.
Variant of cysto-.

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Science Dictionary

cyst (sĭst) Pronunciation Key

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

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Cultural Dictionary

cyst [(sist)]

An abnormal saclike structure that develops in the body and is filled with fluid or semisolid material.

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