Cysticercus (n.) 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).
Cysticule (n.) An appendage of the vestibular ear sac of fishes.
Cystid (n.) One of the Cystidea.
Cystidea (n. pl.) 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.
Cystidean (n.) One of the Cystidea.
Cystine (n.) A white crystalline substance, C3H7NSO2, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasionally found as a sediment in urine.
Cystis (n.) A cyst. See Cyst.
Cystitis (n.) Inflammation of the bladder.
Cystocarp (n.) A minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the reproductive spores.
Cystocele (n.) Hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes; vesical hernia.
Cystoid (n.) Alt. of Cystoidean
Cystoidean (n.) Same as Cystidean.
Cystoidea (n.) Same as Cystidea.
Cystolith (n.) A concretion of mineral matter within a leaf or other part of a plant.
Cystolith (n.) A urinary calculus.
Cystolithic (a.) Relating to stone in the bladder.
Cystoplast (n.) A nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth.
Cystose (a.) Containing, or resembling, a cyst or cysts; cystic; bladdery.
Cystotome (n.) A knife or instrument used in cystotomy.
Cystotomy (n.) The act or practice of opening cysts; esp., the operation of cutting into the bladder, as for the extraction of a calculus.
Cytherean (a.) Pertaining to the goddess Venus.
Cytoblast (n.) The nucleus of a cell; the germinal or active spot of a cellule, through or in which cell development takes place.
Cytoblastema (n.) See Protoplasm.
Cytococci (pl. ) of Cytococcus
Cytococcus (n.) The nucleus of the cytula or parent cell.
Cytode (n.) A nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are present.
Cytogenesis (n.) Development of cells in animal and vegetable organisms. See Gemmation, Budding, Karyokinesis; also Cell development, under Cell.
Cytogenic (a.) Alt. of Cytogenetic
Cytogenetic (a.) Of or pertaining to cytogenesis or cell development.
Cytogenous (a.) Producing cells; -- applied esp. to lymphatic, or adenoid, tissue.
Cytogeny (n .) Cell production or development; cytogenesis.
Cytoid (a.) Cell-like; -- applied to the corpuscles of lymph, blood, chyle, etc.
Cytoplasm (n.) The substance of the body of a cell, as distinguished from the karyoplasma, or substance of the nucleus.
Cytula (n.) The fertilized egg cell or parent cell, from the development of which the child or other organism is formed.
Czar (n.) A king; a chief; the title of the emperor of Russia.
Czarevna (n.) The title of the wife of the czarowitz.
Czarina (n.) The title of the empress of Russia.
Czarinian (a.) Of or pertaining to the czar or the czarina; czarish.
Czarish (a.) Of or pertaining to the czar.
Czarowitzes (pl. ) of Czarowitz
Czarowitz (n.) The title of the eldest son of the czar of Russia.
Czech (n.) One of the Czechs.
Czech (n.) The language of the Czechs (often called Bohemian), the harshest and richest of the Slavic languages.
Czechic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Czechs.
Czechs (n. pl.) The most westerly branch of the great Slavic family of nations, numbering now more than 6,000,000, and found principally in Bohemia and Moravia.