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cyst

[sist] / sɪst /


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It was only after Enlli had further tests when a scan showed a cyst in her pelvis that the teenager from Caernarfon, Gwynedd, was given the devastating news she had ovarian cancer.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

During one set of experiments, researchers tested compounds that they expected would worsen the disease by increasing cellular activity linked to cyst growth.

From Science Daily Jun. 17, 2026

Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda is hospitalized with an infected liver cyst but will provide views remotely for the upcoming policy meeting.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Rachel suggested the indentation in her abdomen might have been an ovarian cyst, and a doctor agreed but took no further action.

From BBC Apr. 8, 2026

The bug emerged from dormancy on an irregular basis, producing bouts of acute physical distress and leaving a cyst on his liver.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

He thinks he had lived with slow-growing cysts on his lungs for years, before having two operations to remove them in 2018 and 2019.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

Jones was in hospital for 10 days, and says the doctors there suspected he had hydatid cysts immediately.

From BBC Aug. 2, 2026

The medications that cause ovarian suppression and have effectively relieved menstrual pain and helped millions of women to manage endometriosis, polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, and ovarian cysts?

From Slate Jul. 28, 2026

The parasite eggs migrate to the rodents' livers and develop into cysts, eventually weakening or killing the animals.

From Science Daily Jun. 11, 2026

The head nurse at Hanawon for the past decade, Chun Jung-hee, told me that a high percentage of women from the North have chronic gynecological infections and cysts.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden




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