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cyst

[sist] / sɪst /


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When she was five months pregnant, ultrasound examinations revealed that the fetus had a cleft palate, a brain cyst, and heart defects.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

During one set of experiments, researchers tested compounds that they expected would worsen the disease by increasing cellular activity linked to cyst growth.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026

The bank's governor Kazuo Ueda - a central figure in deciding interest rates - missed this week's meeting due to being in hospital as he is treated for an infected liver cyst.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

Ueda is expected to remain in the hospital for about two weeks while receiving treatment for an infected liver cyst, the central bank said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

The bug emerged from dormancy on an irregular basis, producing bouts of acute physical distress and leaving a cyst on his liver.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

He thinks he had lived with slow-growing cysts on his lungs for years, before having two operations to remove them in 2018 and 2019.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

A farmer living with slow-growing cysts caused by a tapeworm says he had no idea anything was wrong - until the worst pain of his life.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

The medications that cause ovarian suppression and have effectively relieved menstrual pain and helped millions of women to manage endometriosis, polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, and ovarian cysts?

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

Infection can lead to alveolar echinococcosis, a disease marked by slow-growing metastatic cysts.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 11, 2026

The head nurse at Hanawon for the past decade, Chun Jung-hee, told me that a high percentage of women from the North have chronic gynecological infections and cysts.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden




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