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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A hydatid; a member of a supposed genus Acephalocystis, instituted by Hunter for the hydatid or encysted stage of Tænia echinococcus. See Tænia.
- n. A sterile echinococcus cyst.
Wiktionary
- n. zoology A larval entozoön in the form of subglobular or oval vesicle, or hydatid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A larval entozoön in the form of subglobular or oval vesicle, or hydatid, filled with fluid, sometimes found in the tissues of man and the lower animals; -- so called from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin.
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ἀκέφαλος (akephalos, "headless") + κύστις (kustis, "bladder") (Wiktionary)
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