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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)

  1. 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.

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
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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.

All 29 example sentences with cyst

Forms of cyst

pluralcysts

Plural of cyst: cysts

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

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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

  1. Cyryl
  2. cys
  3. cyser
  4. cysers
  5. Cyssus
  6. cyst
  7. cystacanth
  8. cystacanths
  9. cystadenocarcinoma
  10. cystadenocarcinomas
  11. cystadenocarcinomata

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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