| NOUN | state | cyst | a closed sac that develops abnormally in some body structure |
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| body | cyst, vesicle | a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid) |
| Sounds | sih'st | |
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| Rhymes | abortionist ... Zionist: 245 rhymes with ihst... | |
| Meaning | A closed sac that develops abnormally in some body structure. | |
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| Narrower | 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) | |
| hemorrhagic cyst, blood cyst, hematocyst | A cyst containing blood | |
| hydatid | cyst filled with liquid / liquid | |
| 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 | |
| sebaceous cyst, pilar cyst, wen, steatocystoma | A common cyst of the skin | |
| Broader | pathology | Any deviation from a healthy or normal / normal condition |
| Spanish | lobanillo, lupia, quiste | |
| Catalan | quist | |
| Adjectives | cystic | of or relating to or resembling a cyst |
| encysted | enclosed in (or as if in) a cyst | |
| Meaning | A small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid). | |
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| Synonym | vesicle | |
| Narrower | Golgi body, Golgi apparatus, Golgi complex, dictyosome | A netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions) |
| blister, bulla, bleb | (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid | |
| follicle | Any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity | |
| lacrimal sac, tear sac, dacryocyst | 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 | |
| liposome | An artificially made microscopic vesicle into which nucleic acids can be packaged | |
| Broader | sac | A structure resembling a bag in an animal |
| Spanish | quiste, vesícula | |
| Catalan | vesícula | |
| Adjectives | cystic | of or relating to a normal cyst (as the gallbladder or urinary bladder) |
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