cyst

cyst is a 4-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which is accidentally developed in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which is accidentally developed in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ.
2. noun. In old authors, the urinary bladder, or the gall bladder.
3. noun. One of the bladders or air vessels of certain algae, as of the great kelp of the Pacific, and common rockweeds (Fuci) of our shores.
4. noun. A small capsule or sac of the kind in which many immature entozoans exist in the tissues of living animals; also, a similar form in Rotifera, etc.
5. noun. A form assumed by Protozoa in which they become saclike and quiescent. It generally precedes the production of germs. See Encystment.
6. noun. a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid)

   Synonyms: vesicle

7. noun. a closed sac that develops abnormally in some body structure

Synonyms

vesicle

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cyst:

scyt

Common word forms

cysts, cystal, cysted, cystous

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