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chocolate cyst en · NOUN

Etymology

From the color of the blood, which resembles the color of chocolate.

Meanings

1. An ovarian cyst containing old brown blood, usually, but not always, associated with endometriosis.
   • The best known manifestation of endometriosis in the ovary is the 'chocolate cyst' (Figure 20.13). 2009, Stanley J. Robboy, Robboy's Pathology of the Female Reproductive Tract, →ISBN, page 528:
   • The right ovary was enlarged to approximately 10 centimetres with a bilocular chocolate cyst, suggesting endometrioma. 2012, Julia Grove, Medical Domino Effect: The Right To Bear Child, →ISBN:
   • In situ examination of ovaries with a chocolate cyst has shown that the endometrioma is not an intraovarian cyst of deeply infiltrating endometriosis but an extraovarian pseudocyst consisting of invaginated ovarian cortex fused and sealed off by adhesions and colonized by superficial endometriotic implants. 1997, Gere S. DiZerega, Alan H. DeCherney, Michael P. Diamond, Pelvic Surgery: Adhesion Formation and Prevention, →ISBN:

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