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pseudocyst
1) An accumulation of fluid in a cyst-like loculus, but without an epithelial or other membranous lining.
2) A cyst whose wall is formed by the host & not the parasite.
3) A mass of 50 or more Toxoplasma bradyzoites, found within a host cell, frequently in the brain; formerly called a pseudo- cyst, but now considered a true cyst enclosed in its own membrane within the host cell that may rupture to release particles that form new cysts, & apparently is infective to another vertebrate host.
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cyst
Specific
myxoid cyst (mucous cyst, digital myxoid pseudocyst)
pancreatic pseudocyst
Stafne defect; Stafne idiopathic bone cavity
General
abnormal morphologic structure (malformation)
References
Stedman's Medical Dictionary 26th ed, Williams &
Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995