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a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked

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  1. n. a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked
  2. An indolent, encysted tumor of the skin; especially, a sebaceous cyst. One of the runes adopted into the Anglo-Saxon, or Old English, alphabet. It had the value of modern English w, and was replaced from about a. d. 1280 at first by uu, later by w. X.
  3. An indolent, encysted tumor of the skin; especially, asebaceous cyst.
  4. n:100 n a common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked