Hydatide

In medicine, the following structures are referred to as hydatides (Greek hydatis , hydatos "water bubble"):

• the Morgagni hydatide or appendix testis , a pedunculated vesicle next to the testicle as the remainder of the Müllerian duct
• the appendix epididymidis, an appendage on the head of the epididymis as the remainder of the urinary tubules
• the echinococcal bladder or hydatid cyst , the fin stage of the echinococci and cysticercus , the cyst of other tapeworms in the intermediate host

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