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What is a pneumatocyst?

What is a pneumatocyst? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (marine biology) A sac or other structure containing air and used for flotation by a marine organism, chiefly used in reference to those of kelps and siphonophores.
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The structure so formed is the rudiment of the pneumatocyst.
It has however no communication with the enclosed cavity of the pneumatocyst.
Rhizophysa filiformis, pink, with deep red patch surrounding the aperture of the pneumatocyst.
This article reviews the typical imaging characteristics of a vertebral pneumatocyst, an unusual, intraosseous gas-containing lesion of uncertain etiology.
Incidentally, a well-defined lytic lesion was seen in the sacrum adjacent to the left sacroiliac joint consistent with a pneumatocyst.
In the next stage the air-cavity of the pneumatocyst becomes established within the epiblast.

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