Cyst vs. Enchondroma

Cystnoun

A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which develops in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ.

Enchondromanoun

a cartilage cyst found in the bone marrow.

Cystnoun

(medicine) Of or pertaining to the urinary bladder or gall bladder (in compounds).

‘cystectomy, cystitis, cystoscopy’;

Enchondromanoun

A cartilaginous tumor growing from the interior of a bone.

Cystnoun

A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which is accidentally developed in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ.

Enchondromanoun

benign slow-growing tumor of cartilaginous cells at the ends of tubular bones (especially in the hands and feet)

Cystnoun

One of the bladders or air vessels of certain algæ, as of the great kelp of the Pacific, and common rockweeds (Fuci) of our shores.

Enchondroma

Enchondroma is a type of benign bone tumor belonging to the group of cartilage tumors. There may be no symptoms, or it may present typically in the short tubular bones of the hands with a swelling, pain or pathological fracture.Diagnosis is by X-ray, CT scan and sometimes MRI. Most occur as a less than three centimetre size single tumor.

Cystnoun

A small capsule or sac of the kind in which many immature entozoans exist in the tissues of living animals; also, a similar form in Rotifera, etc.

Cystnoun

a closed sac that develops abnormally in some body structure

Cystnoun

a small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid)

Cyst

A cyst is a closed sac, having a distinct envelope and division compared with the nearby tissue. Hence, it is a cluster of cells that have grouped together to form a sac (like the manner in which water molecules group together to form a bubble); however, the distinguishing aspect of a cyst is that the cells forming the of such a sac are distinctly abnormal (in both appearance and behaviour) when compared with all surrounding cells for that given location.

‘shell’;