chocolate cyst
Medicine
noun
A cyst, especially of the ovary, that contains dark brown altered blood as a result of previous haemorrhage, typically occurring as a manifestation of endometriosis.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
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