cyst

noun

Definition of cystnext
as in tubercle

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Recent Examples of cyst Branchial cleft cysts are sacs filled with fluid found in the neck and can appear as lumps or swelling under the skin. — Matias Grez, CNN, 17 Oct. 2024 Branchial cleft cysts are small sacs filled with fluid that look like lumps under the skin on the side of the neck, according to the Cleveland Clinic. — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 16 Oct. 2024 This is in large part due to symptom overlap with other conditions like IBS, ovarian cysts, and pelvic inflammatory disease. — Heidi Cope, Health, 18 Feb. 2025 Aside from noticeable hair loss at the temples and forehead, other signs of traction alopecia include thinning hair, scalp pain, and follicular cysts or small bumps on the scalp. — Philipp Wehsack, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cyst
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cyst
  1. tubercle
  2. wart
  3. polyp
  4. carcinoma
  5. lymphoma
  6. malignancy
  7. melanoma
  8. cancer
Noun
  • Inspired by the tubercles on the humpback whale's flippers, BlueNav's Whale Design propeller uses a series of bumps along the edge meant to channel water in such a way that increases thrust and improves efficiency.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Jan. 2025
  • However, popping Montgomery tubercles may cause infections.
    — Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 26 May 2023
Definition of tubercle
Noun
  • Child: Cupids in Renaissance art and one’s own—warts and wonder and all.
    — airmail.news, airmail.news, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Sometimes, people with an oral HPV infection develop warts or lesions (sores) on their tongue.
    — Laura Dorwart, Verywell Health, 24 Feb. 2025
Definition of wart
Noun
  • Chronic rhinosinusitis and asthma often occur together, especially in people with nasal polyps.
    — Lindsay Curtis, Health, 5 Mar. 2025
  • However, polyps’ internal growth programming isn’t everything.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 26 Feb. 2025
Definition of polyp
Noun
  • Last September, the FDA granted orphan drug status to its treatment for neuroendocrine carcinoma, a designation which helps drug companies working on potentially life-saving drugs, where treatments are lacking, get to market more efficiently.
    — Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The development of a gene classifier that strongly predicts the risk of invasive breast cancer for patients with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), otherwise known as Stage 0, which often leaves too many patients wondering if the noninvasive cells known as DCIS will progress to breast cancer.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of carcinoma
Noun
  • Mere weeks later, her oldest son, Santiago, was diagnosed with Burkitt lymphoma, a rare form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2025
  • However, common symptoms of dying from lymphoma include extreme fatigue, breathing changes, and loss of appetite.
    — Gagandeep Brar, Verywell Health, 28 Feb. 2025
Definition of lymphoma
Noun
  • Liquid biopsies must detect cancer early, differentiate between malignancies and avoid the pitfalls of false positives and negatives.
    — Mariya Filipova, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Just as with labels on cigarettes, America's top doctor is calling for cancer risk warnings on alcohol after a report cites studies linking alcoholic beverages to more than a half-dozen malignancies, including breast cancer.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of malignancy
Noun
  • Ryan also credited Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Teddi Mellencamp for talking about her own melanoma.
    — Caroline Frost, Deadline, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Vitale, a Hall of Fame broadcaster and college hoops icon, spent the past three years battling melanoma, lymphoma and vocal cord and lymph node cancers.
    — Justin Williams, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
Definition of melanoma
Noun
  • The cancer eventually went into remission after chemotherapy.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Thousands of cancer patients or their estates have sued, saying Roundup gave them non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 13 Mar. 2025
Definition of cancer

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