combining form of Gr. κύστις, CYST; in many modern technical words: as Cysticolous a. [L. -colus inhabiting], inhabiting a cyst. Cystiferous a. [L. -fer bearing], bearing or producing cysts. Cystiform a., of the form of a bladder or cyst. Cystigerous a. [L. -ger bearing], bearing or containing cysts. Cystirrhœa [F. cystirrhée] = cystorrhœa (see CYSTO-). Cystitome [F. cystitome; Gr. -τομος cutting], an instrument for cutting open the capsule of the crystalline lens.
1885. Athenæum, 11 April, 474/2. The cysticolous Myzostomida. These parasites inhabit cysts … which … are malformations of the tissues of the host produced by the irritation.
1836–9. Todd, Cycl. Anat., II. 407/2. The Cystiform Entozoa.
1885. W. Roberts, Urin. & Renal Dis. (ed. 4), II. i. 239. Dense fibrous tissue, containing many large cystiform spaces.
1870. T. Holmes, Syst. Surg. (ed. 2), I. 511. The complex cystic, or cystigerous, growths.
1830. S. Cooper, Dict. Pract. Surg., 373. Cystitome.
