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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In embryology, one of the cysts, or islets of Reil, which early make their appearance in the vascular area of the vertebrate embryo, and which give rise to the blood-corpuscles and to the walls of the embryonic blood-vessels.
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Sometimes a blood-cyst, consisting of a connective-tissue capsule filled with a yellowish-red fluid, remains, and may require to be emptied with a hollow needle.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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