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cystic (adj.)
1630s, "pertaining to the gall bladder," from French
cystique
(16c.), from Modern Latin
cysticus
, from Greek
kystis
"bladder, pouch." Meaning "pertaining to a cyst" is from 1713.
Cystic fibrosis
coined in 1938.
