cystic
- adjective
- /ˈsɪstɪk/
- Specialized
- A few years ago, I got really bad cystic acne all over my forehead.
- cystic fibrosis
- cystic carcinoma
- cystic mass
It can affect your skin, so you can have cystic acne or oily skin.
- It can affect your skin, so you can have cystic acne or oily skin.
- I also got the fun ghost zits, the cystic acne where you can feel it.
- It's like pre Whitehead stage or like cystic pimples.
- Some people get very bad cystic acne.
- I have combo dry skin as an adult now, but I had cystic acne as a teenager.
- Moisturizers are I think for me product wise, the thing that trigger my like cystic hormonal acne the most.
- Half of my face going down into my chin was just destroyed with these huge, huge cystic acne spots.
- The people that are posting up on Instagram with glass perfect skin half the time have huge cystic acne on their face.
- Chloe, what about yourself and mine will go to cystic fibrosis trust.
- There's looping or cystic fibrosis, which often times is an, an early death sentence to your life.
- From cystic deep acne that turns into scar tissue that takes literally months to heal. You getting in my way. Clothes.
- Maybe we should do simple diseases like sickle cell and muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis and Tay Sachs Huntington's.
Examples
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Cystic fibrosis, as you know, is a genetic disease that basically makes my body produce a shit ton of mucus.
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A 17-year-old female with cystic fibrosis.
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Some people get very bad cystic acne.
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Half of my face going down into my chin was just destroyed with these huge, huge cystic acne spots.
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I also got the fun ghost zits, the cystic acne where you can feel it.
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I have combo dry skin as an adult now, but I had cystic acne as a teenager.
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I have cystic fibrosis.
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It can affect your skin, so you can have cystic acne or oily skin.
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The lesion showed peripheral contrast enhancement and contained central cystic and necrotic areas.
Academic text (2008) -
Teenagers often experience cystic acne, which can be painful and persistent.
Synonyms
Having the shape of a small fluid-filled sac inside the body
Closed inside a small pouch in the body, often in tissue
Compounds
- Specialized
A serious inherited disease that makes thick sticky mucus in the lungs and other organs, causing breathing and digestion problems
- Specialized
A blood vessel from the main liver vessel that brings blood to the gallbladder and liver surface
A gene making a membrane protein that controls salt and water in lung cells and whose mutations cause cystic fibrosis
- Specialized
A breast condition with one or more lumps filled with fluid that cause swelling and pain
- Specialized
A vein that carries blood from the gallbladder to a large vein in the liver
How Pimply
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cystic comes from the old Greek root kystis, meaning 'pouch' or 'bladder', and you can see the same root in the simpler word cyst. So, something cystic is like a small fluid-filled 'sac' or balloon in the body.