cysti

{ } n. [ NL. cysticercus, fr. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; bladder + ke`rkos tail: cf. F. cysticerque. ] (Zool.) 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). [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ These larvae live in the tissues of various living animals, and, when swallowed by a suitable carnivorous animal, develop into adult tapeworms in the intestine. See Measles, 4, Tapeworm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. of cyst. ] (Anat.) An appendage of the vestibular ear sac of fishes. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Cystidea. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; a bladder, pouch. ] (Zool.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of the Cystidea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Cyst. ] (Physiol. Chem.) A white crystalline substance, C3H7NSO2, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasionally found as a sediment in urine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. ] A cyst. See Cyst. [ 1913 Webster ]