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7 words match “CYSTIS”

CYSTIS n.
A cyst. See Cyst.
CHOLECYSTIS n.
The gall bladder.
MACROCYSTIS n.
An immensely long blackish seaweed of the Pacific (Macrocystis pyrifera), having numerous almond-shaped air vessels.
NEREOCYSTIS n.
A genus of gigantic seaweeds.
CYST n.
In old authors, the urinary bladder, or the gall bladder. [Written also cystis.]
GALL n.
branous sac, in which the bile, or gall, is stored up, as secreted by the liver; the cholecystis. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus. -- Gall duct, a duct which conveys bile, as the cystic duct, or the hepatic duct. -- Gall sickness, a remitting bilious fever in the Netherlands. Dunglison. -- Gall of the earth (Bot.…
SEA OTTER n.
decidedly webbed. Sea-otter's cabbage (Bot.), a gigantic kelp of the Pacific Ocean (Nereocystis Lutkeana). See Nereocystis.