cyst
/sɪst/
cyst 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
cyst (plural cysts)
cyst meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Bengali and Telugu
cyst in Tamil
- திரவப்பை, நீர்மப்பை, சிஸ்ட், மறையுள்ள, சிறைப்பை, நீர்க்கட்டி
cyst in Marathi
- पुटी
cyst in Bengali
- সিস্ট
cyst in Telugu
- తిత్తి
More languagesFewer languages
- cyst in Malayalam
- കുരു, പരു, മുഴ, കോഷ്ഠി
- cyst in Kannada
- ಸ್ರಾವದ್ರವವಿರುವ ಪೊಳ್ಳುಕೋಶ, ಸಣ್ಣ ಬೊಕ್ಕೆ, ಪೂತಿಕೋಶ, ಜಿಟ್ಟಿ
- cyst in Tagalog
- kiste
- cyst in Arabic
- كِيسَة kīsa, كِيس kīs
- cyst in Indonesian
- kista
- cyst in Vietnamese
- túi bao, nang
Examples of cyst in a sentence
- Spermatoceles are intrascrotal cysts containing sperm that derive from the small tubules of the epididymis.
- The surgeon sent a specimen of the cyst to the hospital's pathology department for staining and analysis to determine its histologic subtype.
- The right ovary was enlarged to approximately 10 centimetres with a bilocular chocolate cyst, suggesting endometrioma.
Forms of cyst
| plural | cysts |
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Origin of cyst
From Late Latin cystis, from Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis, “anatomical sac”).
Words formed from cyst
Phrases with cyst
Words that rhyme with cyst
43 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- frist
- insist
- Liszt
- piste
- tryst
- agist
- consist
- dismissed
- encyst
- hist
- pissed
- sist
- tier list
- trist
- whist
- wrist
- absist
- atwist
- bist
- cist
- coexist
- contrist
- delist
- demist
- desist
- dissed
- dream list
- exist
- fair list
- get one's knickers in a twist
- glissed
- hissed
- is't
- ist
- kissed
- missed
- rankist
- schist
- triste
- unlist
- ventriloquist
- wist
- xyst
Questions about cyst
- What does cyst mean?
- Cyst means 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.
- What is cyst in Tamil?
- Cyst in Tamil is திரவப்பை, நீர்மப்பை, சிஸ்ட். See Cyst meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is cyst?
- Cyst is a noun.
- How do you pronounce cyst?
- Cyst is pronounced /sɪst/.
- What is the plural of cyst?
- The plural of cyst is cysts.
Words near cyst in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cyst (page history and authors); cyst (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cyst (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cyst (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cyst (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cyst (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); cyst (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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