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

n. Anatomy A sac or vesicle in the body.

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

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

n. A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which develops in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ.

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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.

n. In old authors, the urinary bladder, or the gall bladder.

n. One of the bladders or air vessels of certain algæ, as of the great kelp of the Pacific, and common rockweeds (Fuci) of our shores.

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n. A small capsule or sac of the kind in which many immature entozoans exist in the tissues of living animals; also, a similar form in Rotifera, etc.

n. A form assumed by Protozoa in which they become saclike and quiescent. It generally precedes the production of germs. See Encystment.

n. In anatomy, a bladder; a large vesicle.

n. In pathology, a bladder-like bag or vesicle in animal bodies which includes morbid matter.

n. In zoology, a hydatid; a cystic worm, or encysted state of a tapeworm.

n. In cryptogamic botany, a cell or cavity, usually inclosing other cells or reproductive bodies, as an envelop inclosing a group of diatoms or desmids, or a cell containing an antherozoid; in certain algæ, a sporecase. See coniocyst.

n. Sometimes, improperly, cist.

n. The resistant coating formed by the parent organism previous to sporulation and inclosing the spores, in Sporozoa.

n. In Sporozoa, the common envelop surrounding the two associated gametocytes.

n. The resistant covering secreted by many Infusoria previous to going into a resting-stage, or before fission, or for the purpose of resisting draught or other unfavorable conditions of environment.

n. a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid)

n. a closed sac that develops abnormally in some body structure

"And there's another stage, which we call the cyst phase, where they go to sleep."

inclusion cyst    mother-cyst    nabothian cysts    ovarian cyst    serous cyst    meibomian cyst    dermoid cyst    dentigerous cyst    parent-cyst    piliferous cyst   

cystis    encystment   

cystig   

chest    sac   

Liszt    assist    cist    coexist    consist    delist    desist    dismissed    enlist    exist   

carcinoma    follicle    hyperplasia    abscess    tumour    lesion    parenchyma    cystadenoma    metastasis    tubules