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In old authors, the urinary bladder, or the gall bladder. [Written also cystis.]

Inclosed in a cyst.

Having the form of, or living in, a cyst; as, the cystic entozoa.

The larval form of a tapeworm, having the head and neck of a tapeworm attached to a saclike body filled with fluid; -- called also bladder worm, hydatid, and measle (as, pork measle).

An appendage of the vestibular ear sac of fishes. Owen.

One of the Cystidea.

An order of Crinoidea, mostly fossils of the Paleozoic rocks. They were usually roundish or egg-shaped, and often unsymmetrical; some were sessile, others had short stems.

One of the Cystidea.

A white crystalline substance, C3H7NSO2, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasionally found as a sediment in urine.

A cyst. See Cyst.

Inflammation of the bladder.

A minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the reproductive spores.

Hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes; vesical hernia.

Same as Cystidean.

Same as Cystidea.

A concretion of mineral matter within a leaf or other part of a plant.

Relating to stone in the bladder.

A nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth.

Containing, or resembling, a cyst or cysts; cystic; bladdery.

A knife or instrument used in cystotomy.