cyst

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Recent Examples of cyst This is in large part due to symptom overlap with other conditions like IBS, ovarian cysts, and pelvic inflammatory disease. Heidi Cope, Health, 18 Feb. 2025 Aside from noticeable hair loss at the temples and forehead, other signs of traction alopecia include thinning hair, scalp pain, and follicular cysts or small bumps on the scalp. Philipp Wehsack, Vogue, 30 Jan. 2025 While other treatments may be effective at shrinking fibroids and cysts, which marijuana will not do, medical cannabis may relieve pain associated with those conditions, said board co-chair Dr. Leslie Mendoza Temple. Robert McCoppin, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2025 Ovarian cysts: Hormonal IUDs may lead to the formation of ovarian cysts, which are usually small and resolve without requiring treatment. Lindsay Curtis, Verywell Health, 14 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cyst
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Noun
  • Inspired by the tubercles on the humpback whale's flippers, BlueNav's Whale Design propeller uses a series of bumps along the edge meant to channel water in such a way that increases thrust and improves efficiency.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 28 Jan. 2025
  • However, popping Montgomery tubercles may cause infections.
    Dr. Roshini Raj, Health, 26 May 2023
Noun
  • But his music also encourages discovering your true self, warts and all.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The Smith case is one of scores touched by those detectives winding through the courts, warts and all.
    Donna McGuire, Ian Cummings, and Glenn E. Rice, Kansas City Star, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Chronic rhinosinusitis and asthma often occur together, especially in people with nasal polyps.
    Lindsay Curtis, Health, 5 Mar. 2025
  • However, polyps’ internal growth programming isn’t everything.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Last September, the FDA granted orphan drug status to its treatment for neuroendocrine carcinoma, a designation which helps drug companies working on potentially life-saving drugs, where treatments are lacking, get to market more efficiently.
    Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The development of a gene classifier that strongly predicts the risk of invasive breast cancer for patients with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), otherwise known as Stage 0, which often leaves too many patients wondering if the noninvasive cells known as DCIS will progress to breast cancer.
    Kris Holt, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Mere weeks later, her oldest son, Santiago, was diagnosed with Burkitt lymphoma, a rare form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2025
  • However, common symptoms of dying from lymphoma include extreme fatigue, breathing changes, and loss of appetite.
    Gagandeep Brar, Verywell Health, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Liquid biopsies must detect cancer early, differentiate between malignancies and avoid the pitfalls of false positives and negatives.
    Mariya Filipova, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Just as with labels on cigarettes, America's top doctor is calling for cancer risk warnings on alcohol after a report cites studies linking alcoholic beverages to more than a half-dozen malignancies, including breast cancer.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Acral melanoma, in particular, is a subset of melanoma that grows on the palms and soles.
    Caroline C. Boyle, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2025
  • In 2022, Mellencamp revealed she'd been diagnosed with stage 2 melanoma and has had ongoing treatment to remove the skin cancer.
    Doha Madani, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • What To Know Metastatic breast cancer occurs when breast cancer reaches stage 4 and has effectively spread beyond the breast to other parts of the body, like the bones, lungs or liver.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Keep in mind that nutrition, or cancer treatments like chemotherapy, also can be the reason for hair loss.
    Lana Barhum, Verywell Health, 13 Mar. 2025

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“Cyst.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cyst. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

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