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SEBACEOUS CYST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked
Synonyms:
pilar cyst; sebaceous cyst; steatocystoma; wen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("sebaceous cyst" is a kind of...):
cyst (a closed sac that develops abnormally in some body structure)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sebaceous cyst"):
chalazion; Meibomian cyst (a small sebaceous cyst of the eyelid resulting when a Meibomian gland is blocked)