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What is a cyst?

What is a cyst? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  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.
  2. (medicine) Of or pertaining to the urinary bladder or gall bladder (in compounds).
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A large pseudocyst that ruptures, becomes infected, or hemorrhages requires drainage of the cyst cavity.
The most common cyst is a functional ovarian cyst, and there are two types.
The archeopyle is created by loss of an operculum that is distinguished from the adjacent cyst surface by a distinct groove.
A prominent smooth muscle component, reminiscent of uterine wall myometrium, accounted for most of the cyst wall.
Our patient had a spontaneous onset hematic cyst without any history of previous trauma or surgery.
A primary spermatogonium surrounded by a pair of cyst cells undergoes four mitotic divisions, forming a cyst of 16 primary spermatocytes.

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