cyst
noun/sɪst/
/sɪst/
- a growth containing liquid that forms in or on a person’s or an animal’s body and may need to be removedTopics Health problemsc2Word Originearly 18th cent.: from late Latin cystis, from Greek kustis ‘bladder’.
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