hydatid daughter cyst

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• daughter cyst — a small parasitic cyst developed from the wall of a larger one, such as a hydatid cyst. Called also secondary c …   Medical dictionary

• daughter cyst — (PLATYHELMINTHES: Cestoda) Fluid filled bladder with protoscolesces formed by exogenous budding of the germinal epithelium of a unilocular hydatid cyst …   Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

• Cyst — A closed sac or capsule, usually filled with fluid or semisolid material. * * * 1. A bladder. 2. An abnormal sac containing gas, fluid, or a semisolid material, with a membranous lining. SEE ALSO: pseudocyst. [G. kystis, bladder] adventitious c.… …   Medical dictionary

• hydatid — 1. SYN: h. cyst. 2. A vesicular structure resembling an Echinococcus cyst. [G. hydatis, a drop of water, a hyatid] Morgagni h. SYN: vesicular appendages of epoophoron, under appendage. nonpedunculated h. SYN: appendix of …   Medical dictionary

• hydatid cyst — a cyst formed during the larval stage of tapeworms of species Echinococcus; it contains daughter cysts that contain many scoleces. There are two types, the alveolar or multilocular hydatid cyst and the unilocular hydatid cyst. Called also… …   Medical dictionary

• hydatid — n. a bladder like cyst formed in various human tissues following the growth of the larval stage of an Echinococcus tapeworm. E. granulosus produces a single large fluid filled cyst, called unilocular hydatid, which gives rise internally to… …   The new mediacal dictionary

• hydatid — noun Etymology: Greek hydatid , hydatis watery cyst, from hydat , hydōr Date: 1683 the larval cyst of a tapeworm (genus Echinococcus) occurring as a fluid filled sac containing daughter cysts in which scolices develop …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• granddaughter cyst — a cyst occasionally seen within the daughter cyst of a hydatid cyst …   Medical dictionary

• mother cyst — a cyst that encloses other cysts (the “daughter cysts”), such as sometimes occurs with hydatid cysts …   Medical dictionary

• acephalocyst — A hydatid cyst with no daughter cyst; a sterile hydatid, so called because it fails to develop scoleces (tapeworm heads). [G. a priv. + kephale, head, + kystis, bladder] * * * aceph·a·lo·cyst ( )ā sef ə lō …   Medical dictionary

• Coenurus — Former generic name, now used to designate larval forms of taenioid cestodes in which a bladder is formed with a number of invaginated scoleces developing within; distinguished from a hydatid cyst by the absence of free floating daughter cyst… …   Medical dictionary