Definitions for cysts

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cysts cyst

Spelling: [sist]

IPA: /sɪst/

Cysts is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in cysts (cssty).

Definitions for cysts

noun

1. Pathology. a closed, bladderlike sac formed in animal tissues, containing fluid or semifluid matter.
2. a bladder, sac, or vesicle.
3. Botany, Mycology. a sporelike cell with a resistant, protective wall. a cell or cavity enclosing reproductive bodies.
4. 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.

Origin of cysts

1705-15; New Latin cystis Greek kýstis bag, pouch, the bladder; akin to kŷma cyma

Examples for cysts

An abdominal or pelvic tumor may be pushed out of the way of the compressed bowel, a cyst punctured, a displaced womb replaced.

Was it complacence or suspicion that stirred the liquid in the cyst so smoothly?

The removal of a large circular piece of the cyst in ovarian dropsy, when the sac itself cannot be extirpated.

A fatty tumour is to be diagnosed from a cold abscess and from a cyst.

After emptying the cyst the gut was readily discovered and opened.

This case had not proceeded far enough for the formation of the cyst or pus.

As a result of pyogenic infection the cyst may be converted into an abscess.

In “The Incalculable Life Gesture,” an elementary school principal develops a cyst in his throat that may or may not be malignant.

Except venereal disorders and a cyst, which he had as a child, has never been ill.

I had a cyst, of fifteen years' growth, on the back of my head.