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Cyclotron
- noun - an accelerator that imparts energies of several million electron-volts to rapidly moving particles
Cycnoches
- noun - genus of epiphytic or terrestrial tropical American orchids
Cyphonism
- - A punishment sometimes used by the ancients, consisting in the besmearing of the criminal with honey, and exposing him to insects. It is still in use among some Oriental nations.
Cyrtomium
- noun - small genus of tropical Asiatic greenhouse ferns; in some classifications placed in Polypodiaceae
Cystocarp
- - A minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the reproductive spores.
Cystocele
- noun - hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes through the wall of the vagina; sometimes occurs after childbirth
Cystolith
- noun - a calculus formed in the bladder
Cystotome
- - A knife or instrument used in cystotomy.
Cystotomy
- - The act or practice of opening cysts; esp., the operation of cutting into the bladder, as for the extraction of a calculus.