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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.
Cysts may feel firm as the fluid may be tightly contained within the cyst capsule.
The archeopyle is created by loss of an operculum that is distinguished from the adjacent cyst surface by a distinct groove.
The cyst contents can be mucinous, hemorrhagic, or necrotic with clear to turbid fluid.
Our patient had a spontaneous onset hematic cyst without any history of previous trauma or surgery.
The cyst wall disintegrates in the small intestine, releasing motile trophozoites.

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