cyst
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cyst /sɪst/
▶noun
- 1 Biology a thin-walled hollow organ or cavity in an animal or plant, containing a liquid secretion.
- 2 Medicine a membranous sac or cavity of abnormal character in the body, containing fluid.
- 3 a tough protective capsule enclosing the larva of a parasitic worm or the resting stage of an organism.
– origin C18: from late L. cystis, from Gk kustis ‘bladder’.
'cyst' also found in these Oxford entries:
chest
- cystectomy
- cystic
- dermoid cyst
- encyst
- hydatid
- sac
- saccule
- sebaceous cyst
- toxocariasis
- vesicle
- wen
