Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 168

Cysticercus (n.) The larval form of a tapeworm, having the head and neck of a tapeworm attached to a saclike body filled with fluid; -- called also bladder worm, hydatid, and measle (as, pork measle).

Cysticule (n.) An appendage of the vestibular ear sac of fishes.

Cystid (n.) One of the Cystidea.

Cystidea (n. pl.) An order of Crinoidea, mostly fossils of the Paleozoic rocks. They were usually roundish or egg-shaped, and often unsymmetrical; some were sessile, others had short stems.

Cystidean (n.) One of the Cystidea.

Cystine (n.) A white crystalline substance, C3H7NSO2, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasionally found as a sediment in urine.

Cystis (n.) A cyst. See Cyst.

Cystitis (n.) Inflammation of the bladder.

Cystocarp (n.) A minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the reproductive spores.

Cystocele (n.) Hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes; vesical hernia.

Cystoid (n.) Alt. of Cystoidean.

Cystoidean (n.) Same as Cystidean.

Cystoidea (n.) Same as Cystidea.

Cystolith (n.) A concretion of mineral matter within a leaf or other part of a plant.

Cystolith (n.) A urinary calculus.

Cystolithic (a.) Relating to stone in the bladder.

Cystoplast (n.) A nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth.

Cystose (a.) Containing, or resembling, a cyst or cysts; cystic; bladdery.

Cystotome (n.) A knife or instrument used in cystotomy.

Cystotomy (n.) The act or practice of opening cysts; esp., the operation of cutting into the bladder, as for the extraction of a calculus.

Cytherean (a.) Pertaining to the goddess Venus.

Cytoblast (n.) The nucleus of a cell; the germinal or active spot of a cellule, through or in which cell development takes place.

Cytoblastema (n.) See Protoplasm.

Cytococci (n. pl. ) of Cytococcus.

Cytococcus (n.) The nucleus of the cytula or parent cell.

Cytode (n.) A nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are present.

Cytogenesis (n.) Development of cells in animal and vegetable organisms. See Gemmation, Budding, Karyokinesis; also Cell development, under Cell.

Cytogenic (a.) Alt. of Cytogenetic.

Cytogenetic (a.) Of or pertaining to cytogenesis or cell development.

Cytogenous (a.) Producing cells; -- applied esp. to lymphatic, or adenoid, tissue.

Cytogeny (n .) Cell production or development; cytogenesis.

Cytoid (a.) Cell-like; -- applied to the corpuscles of lymph, blood, chyle, etc.

Cytoplasm (n.) The substance of the body of a cell, as distinguished from the karyoplasma, or substance of the nucleus.

Cytula (n.) The fertilized egg cell or parent cell, from the development of which the child or other organism is formed.

Czar (n.) A king; a chief; the title of the emperor of Russia.

Czarevna (n.) The title of the wife of the czarowitz.

Czarina (n.) The title of the empress of Russia.

Czarinian (a.) Of or pertaining to the czar or the czarina; czarish.

Czarish (a.) Of or pertaining to the czar.

Czarowitzes (n. pl. ) of Czarowitz.

Czarowitz (n.) The title of the eldest son of the czar of Russia.

Czech (n.) (n.) 捷克人;捷克語 (a.) 捷克人的;捷克語的 One of the Czechs.

Czech (n.) The language of the Czechs (often called Bohemian), the harshest and richest of the Slavic languages.

Czechic (a.) 捷克的,捷克人 [] Of or pertaining to the Czechs.

Czechoslovakia (Proper noun) 捷克斯拉夫(國名,1918-19931993年分裂成捷克共和國與斯洛伐克兩個國家) A former country in central Europe, now divided between the Czech Republic and Slovakia; capital, Prague.

Czechoslovakia was created out of the northern part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of the First World War. It was crushed by the Nazi takeover of the Sudetenland in 1938 and the rest of the country in 1939. After the Second World War Czechoslovakia fell under Soviet domination, an attempt at liberalization being crushed by military intervention in 1968, until the velvet revolution of 1989. The two parts separated on 1 January 1993.

Czech Republic (n.) A republic in central Europe: includes the regions of Bohemia, Moravia, and part of Silesia; formerly part of Czechoslovakia; independent since 1993. 10,318,958; 30,449 sq. mi. (78,864 sq. km). Capital: Prague.

Czechs (n. pl.) The most westerly branch of the great Slavic family of nations, numbering now more than 6,000,000, and found principally in Bohemia and Moravia.

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