Abnormal sacs

Usage examples of cysts.

Roman gave a cry of horror as the cysts plopped onto the floor in splatters of blood and mucus.

The man stumbled backward, tipped over a tray of surgical instruments, sprawled to the floor, slippery with cysts and blood.

In monstrosities and dermoid cysts, for example, we seem to catch forbidden sight of the secret work-room of Nature, and drag out into the light the evidences of her clumsiness, and proofs of her lapses of skill,--evidences and proofs, moreover, that tell us much of the methods and means used by the vital artisan of Life,--the loom, and even the silent weaver at work upon the mysterious garment of corporeality.

Nearly every medical museum has preserved specimens of dermoid cysts, and almost all physicians are well acquainted with their occurrence.

Dermoid cysts are found also in regions of the body quite remote from the ovary.

In a case of Sangster, reported by Politzer, although most of the dermoids, as usual, were like fibroma-nodules and therefore the color of normal skin, those over the mastoid processes and clavicle were lemon-yellow, and were generally thought to be xanthoma until they were excised, and Politzer found they were typical dermoid cysts with the usual contents of degenerated epithelium and hair.

Buck mentions a case of hydatid cysts in the wall of the left ventricle, with rupture of the cysts and sudden death.

A cystic tumor, formed of small cysts in its upper part and of somewhat larger ones in the lower part, was revealed.

The adhesions were separated and the cyst tapped with a large trocar, and then the septa between the cysts were broken down with the fingers.

I spent dozens of hours in a pressure suit, accompanying my husband across the lava ridges to deep gorges where mother cysts might be found.

Martian springtimes of flash floods and heavier atmosphere from evaporating carbon dioxide came farther apart, and finally stopped, and the cysts ceased blooming.

The puzzle remained, however: no organic molecules could remain viable across the tens of thousands of years that the cysts had typically lay buried between blooms.

The generally accepted theory was that the cysts once contained soft reproductive organs, but no remains of such organs had been found.

The cysts might still be viable, and the genetic information for a Martian ecos was contained in the mineral formations within the cyst, locked in the minute intricacies of clay and quartz.

There was some combination of water, water-soluble minerals, and temperature that triggered the cysts, and the combination had existed in Cyane Sulci, but no attempt to duplicate those conditions in a lab worked.