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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: -cyst n combining form - indicating a bladder or sac: otocyst
Etymology: from Greek kustis bladder WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024cyst /sɪst/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Pathologyan abnormal saclike growth of the body in which liquid or matter is contained.
cys•tic, adj. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cyst (sist),USA pronunciation n. - Pathologya closed, bladderlike sac formed in animal tissues, containing fluid or semifluid matter.
- a bladder, sac, or vesicle.
- Fungi[Bot., Mycol.]
- Botanya sporelike cell with a resistant, protective wall.
- Botanya cell or cavity enclosing reproductive bodies.
- 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.
- Greek kýstis bag, pouch, the bladder; akin to kŷma cyma
- Neo-Latin cystis
- 1705–15
cyst-, - var. of cysto-, before a vowel:cystectomy.
-cyst, - var. of cysto-, as final element in a compound word:statocyst.
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