cyst

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Recent Examples of cyst Symptoms can include excessive hair growth, irregular ovulation, and ovarian cysts. Ann Pietrangelo, Verywell Health, 22 Apr. 2025 It is characterized by irregular menstrual cycles, excess androgen (male hormone) levels, and polycystic ovaries, which are enlarged ovaries containing numerous small cysts. Advertorial, Oc Register, 5 June 2025 While most ovarian cysts are completely harmless, there is a small chance that complications could arise if larger cysts are left untreated. Caroline C. Boyle, USA Today, 4 June 2025 The infected cyst was removed, and Sarah has a machine connected to her groin that drains the fluid. Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for cyst
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Noun
  • This frog is easily recognized by the long tubercles on the sides of its body.
    GrrlScientist, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
  • Inspired by the tubercles on the humpback whale's flippers, BlueNav's Whale Design propeller uses a series of bumps along the edge meant to channel water in such a way that increases thrust and improves efficiency.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • This raises the risk of a host of complications that could impact your belly button, including both bacterial skin infections and viral infections, like warts or cold sores.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 11 June 2025
  • This can predispose to viral infections like warts and conditions like molluscum contagiosum – small, firm, dome-like bumps.
    Jesse Pines, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • What to know about the seafarers The blobs are not jellyfish but colonies of polyps similar to the Portuguese man-of-war, according to JellyWatch.
    Daniella Segura, Sacbee.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Some of these common drugs include antacids, antidepressants, blood pressure medication, iron supplements, and opiates (narcotics). Polyps or tumors: A blockage in the intestine caused by a large growth (a polyp) or a tumor prevents stool from passing.
    Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • Malignant tumors are usually either squamous cell carcinoma, fibrosarcoma, melanoma, or other such as an osteosarcoma.
    Dr. John De Jong, Boston Herald, 11 May 2025
  • Clear cell renal carcinoma gets its name from how the cancer cells appear under a microscope, the National Cancer Institute explains.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, People.com, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • This not only includes breast cancers, but also thyroid, melanoma, lymphoma, cervical, ovarian and even lung cancers.
    Carolyn Bhakta, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2025
  • With no cancer in her bone marrow or spinal fluid, her diagnosis was revised to B-cell lymphoma, which according to the American Cancer Society is the most common type of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the United States.
    Jordan Greene, People.com, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • Most striking was the test’s ability to detect malignancies long considered unscreenable—pancreatic, ovarian, and others that had eluded surveillance.
    Siddhartha Mukherjee, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
  • Grail’s test identified malignancy in 1,453 of the cancer cases, missing it in 1,370.
    Siddhartha Mukherjee, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • What health & wellness means for you:Sign up for USA TODAY's Keeping It Together newsletter Cena wants to close the 'gender gap' in SPF usage Women are more than twice as likely as men to wear sunscreen, but by age 50, men are at a greater risk of melanoma than women.
    Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 12 May 2025
  • The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum — who shared in February that her melanoma had spread to her lungs and brain — sat down with Nightline for an interview which aired on Thursday, April 10.
    Toria Sheffield, People.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Health Issues Exotic has prostate cancer and cancer in his left lung.
    Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 June 2025
  • Overall, the rate of death seven days after mRNA vaccinations has been lower than the background rates among the general population for the most common causes of death — such as heart disease, cancer and stroke.
    Michael A. Hiltzik, Mercury News, 28 June 2025

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“Cyst.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cyst. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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