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

noun. A sac or vesicle in the body.

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

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

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

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

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

noun. 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.

noun. Sometimes, improperly, cist.

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

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

noun. 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.

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noun. 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.

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

noun. 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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noun. 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.

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

noun. 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.

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

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

"Assuming the cyst is a warning sign that he will soon meet his maker, he is determined to do two things before he dies; he needs to regain what he believes he let slide; his ties to his wife and his estranged grandson Daniel, an Alaskan fisherman running away from home since his parents died years ago."

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