STEATOCYSTOMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does steatocystoma mean? 

• STEATOCYSTOMA (noun)
  The noun STEATOCYSTOMA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: STEATOCYSTOMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEATOCYSTOMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

pilar cyst; sebaceous cyst; steatocystoma; wen

Hypernyms ("steatocystoma" is a kind of...):

cyst (a closed sac that develops abnormally in some body structure)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "steatocystoma"):

chalazion; Meibomian cyst (a small sebaceous cyst of the eyelid resulting when a Meibomian gland is blocked)

 Context examples 

Mutations in this gene are associated with Jackson-Lawler type pachyonychia congenita and steatocystoma multiplex.

(KRT17 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)