The ovarian cyst wall opens up, which exposes the fluid in the cyst to your abdominal cavity. Physical activity or sexual activity may lead to a cyst in the ovary that ruptures. Ruptured ovarian ...

Westend61 / Getty Images A Chinese Wall is an ethical concept of separation between groups, departments, or individuals within the same organization—a virtual barrier that prohibits ...

A cystic hygroma — or lymphangioma — is a birth defect that appears as a sac-like structure with a thin wall that most commonly occurs in ... usually looks like a soft bulge under the skin. The cyst ...

A urachal cyst is a sac of tissue and fluid between the bladder and the belly button (umbilicus). The cyst forms in the remnants of the urachus, a structure normally present in a fetus that usually ...

In this important study, the authors investigate the biogenesis of extracellular vesicles in mycobacteria and provide several observations to link VirR with vesiculogenesis, peptidoglycan metabolism, ...

For many women, this could be the unexpected result of a ruptured ovarian cyst. Ovarian cysts are fluid-filled sacs that can form inside or on the outer surface of an ovary. These cysts are quite ...

Branches are colored according to the M. tuberculosis complex lineage: pink for lineage 1, blue for lineage 2, purple for lineage 3, and red for lineage 4. Discrete heat maps next to the phylogeny ...