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Synonyms for cyst

Grammar : Noun
Spell : sist
Phonetic Transcription : sɪst

Définition of cyst

Origin :
  • 1713, from Modern Latin cystis (in English as a Latin word from 1540s), from Greek kystis "bladder, pouch."
  • noun unusual growth
Example sentences :
  • Was it complacence or suspicion that stirred the liquid in the cyst so smoothly?
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 » by Various
  • This case had not proceeded far enough for the formation of the cyst or pus.
  • Extract from : « Cattle and Their Diseases » by Robert Jennings
  • I had a cyst, of fifteen years' growth, on the back of my head.
  • Extract from : « My Adventures with Your Money » by George Graham Rice
  • Except venereal disorders and a cyst, which he had as a child, has never been ill.
  • Extract from : « The Criminal » by Havelock Ellis
  • After emptying the cyst the gut was readily discovered and opened.
  • Extract from : « A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II » by Various
  • As a result of pyogenic infection the cyst may be converted into an abscess.
  • Extract from : « Manual of Surgery » by Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles
  • A fatty tumour is to be diagnosed from a cold abscess and from a cyst.
  • Extract from : « Manual of Surgery » by Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles
  • The removal of a large circular piece of the cyst in ovarian dropsy, when the sac itself cannot be extirpated.
  • Extract from : « North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 » by Various
  • An abdominal or pelvic tumor may be pushed out of the way of the compressed bowel, a cyst punctured, a displaced womb replaced.
  • Extract from : « A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II » by Various
  • The ball was found deeply lodged in a cyst in the posterior part of the brain.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise on Gunshot Wounds » by Thomas Longmore

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