Sentence examples for cyst from inspiring English sources

Diagnostic uncertainty, error and surprise are a constant theme: the man supposedly eclipsed by Alzheimer's, miraculously restored when an unsuspected brain cyst is removed; the demented, wordless, tongue-clicking woman who bursts into song when the music therapist chances on her wedding tune and the rhythm of her clicks is explained.

In the life cycle of certain parasitic worms, a cyst develops around the larval form within the muscle tissue of the host animal.

Many parasitic and free-living protozoans (one-celled animals) exhibit a dormant stage by secreting a protective cyst.

The stimulus for cyst formation in free-living protozoans may be temperature changes, pollution, or lack of food or water.

Thus, the cyst serves not only for survival of the egg under adverse conditions but also for dispersal.

Certain other human diseases of platyhelminth origin such as hydatid (cyst) disease, caused by the tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus owe their survival and dissemination to man's close ecological association with dogs.

The form of polycystic (multiple-cyst) renal disease that allows survival into adult life is a familial condition, in which several members of the family have little trouble until middle life but then are progressively affected by kidney malfunction.

A related, cyst-forming species, the sugar beet nematode (H. schachtii), is a pest that has restricted acreage of sugar beets in Europe, Asia, and America.

The doctor pointed out lumps on my ovaries which he said were cysts.

The cysts on the ovaries can affect fertility – but don't panic just yet".

The condition has several variants, but it commonly involves testosterone and cysts.