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Glossary: Cysts
 


Definition
A closed pocket or pouch of tissue; a cyst may form within any tissue in the body and can be filled with air, fluid, pus, or other material. Cysts within the lung generally are air-filled, while cysts involving the lymph system or kidneys are fluid filled. Cysts under the skin are benign, extremely common, movable lumps. These may develop as a result of infection, clogging of sebaceous glands, developmental abnormalities or around foreign bodies.

Also: Cyst

Topics Related To Cysts
Boils, Abscesses, CarbunclesRecommendation Surgery
"...For pilonidal cysts, surgically removing the cyst lining is important..."

Castor Oil

As A Treatment
"...Reasons For Use Conditions which have been responsive to castor oil applications include ... sebaceous cysts..."

Cysts

The Condition
"A cyst is an abnormal growth consisting of a closed sac filled with fluid or solid material..."

Recommendation Alkalizing Agents/Diet
"Some doctors believe that a tendency to form cysts occurs more frequently in those with an acidic body pH..."

Recommendation Test for Food Allergies
"Generalized cysts may be due to allergies..."

Recommendation Surgery
"Sebaceous cysts are usually ignored unless they become bothersome or infected..."

Dysentery

The Condition
"...Amebiasis is contracted by swallowing the cyst stage of the parasite in contaminated food or water..."

Enlarged Lymph Nodes

The Condition
"..., cysts from abnormalities of fetal development or thyroid gland enlargement..."

Fibrocystic Breast Disease

The Condition
"...However, recent research has offered new hope because it has shown a strong connection between the wearing of bras and benign fibrocystic lumps, cysts and pain..."

Recommendation Change In Clothing Habits
"Sydney Singer and Soma Grismaijer (authors of Dressed to Kill, Avery Press, 1995) suggest that some 80% of bra-wearers who experience lumps, cysts or tenderness will see those symptoms vanish, "within a month of getting rid of the bra..."

Giardiasis Infection

The Condition
"...Causes & Development Early human research demonstrated that ingestion of fewer than 10 cysts failed to cause infection, whereas more than 100 cysts resulted in infection..."

Recommendation Pippali rasayana
"...Agarwals' research team conducted a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial with 50 subjects, all of whom had clinical signs and symptoms of giardiasis, as well as giardia trophozoites and cysts in the stool..."

Recommendation Wheat Germ
"N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (NAG) residues are major structural components of both giardia cysts and trophozoites..."

Kidney Cancer

The Condition
"...Tuberous sclerosis is a disease characterized by small tumors of the blood vessels, which result in numerous bumps on the skin, mental retardation, seizures, cysts in the kidneys, liver, and pancreas and RCC..."

Kidney Disease

The Condition
"...The kidneys become filled with cysts, which cause the kidneys to become less effective, and eventually leads to kidney failure..."

Ovarian Cysts

The Condition
"An ovary can frequently become enlarged by a cyst - a fluid-filled compartment or sac formed by an envelope of ovarian tissue..."

Related Topic
"...Rarely, a very large cyst can become twisted and stop its own blood supply, possibly causing nausea, fever or severe abdominal pain..."

Pancreatitis

The Condition
"...Surgery may be required to remove gallstones, drain obstructed bile ducts or remove fluid-filled cysts..."

Parasite Infection

The Condition
"...Protozoa form cysts, or a resting stage, where they become resistant to temperature extremes, chemicals and drying..."

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)

The Condition
"Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), previously known as Stein-Leventhal syndrome, is a disorder in which numerous benign cysts form on the ovaries under a thick, white covering..."

Poor Cerebral Circulation

The Condition
"...The clot and dead tissue are removed by macrophages, and the damaged area is invaded by connective tissue and glia, often producing a fluid-filled cyst..."

Problems Associated With Snoring

The Condition
"...Cysts and tumors..."

Protozoan

Related Topic
"...These cysts have a protective layer that surrounds them and keeps chemicals from penetrating them..."

Remove Wisdom Teeth

As A Treatment
"...Cyst Formation..."

Rosacea

The Condition
"...The red spots and pustules are dome-shaped rather than pointed and there are no blackheads, whiteheads, deep cysts, or lumps..."

Sarcoidosis

The Condition
"...There may be pain in the hands, feet or other bony areas due to the formation of cysts (an abnormal sac-like growth) in bones..."

Tapeworm Infection

The Condition
"...The adult tapeworms live in the predator (definitive host, for example a dog), while the prey (intermediate host, for example a sheep) plays host to the intermediate stages, most commonly called cysts or cysticerci..."

Thyroid Cancer

The Condition
"...An ultrasound scan to look at the thyroid and neck and determine whether there are lots of lumps or just one, and whether the lumps are solid or filled with fluid (cysts)..."

Trichinosis

The Condition
"...The threadlike worms spend most of their lives curled up inside a protective capsule or cyst in muscle tissue..."





Last updated: Oct 22, 2008


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