CRYPT

n. Kri2pt. Gr., <cpw'irnj (from icpvirrds, hidden). Lat., surprised by a great danger [Trou eau]: heard in cerebral diseases crypto. Fr., crypte. Ger., Krypte. It., critta. Sp., cripta. A of children especially, such as tuberculous meningitis and acute small cavity, either entirely closed or opening on a free surface, hydrocephalus. It occurs during sleep or coma often at periods C's of Lieberkuhn. Lat. cryptce mucosoz (seu lieberkiihniance). of five, ten, or fifteen minutes, sometimes every hour, during sev- Fr., glandes de Lieberkuhn. Ger., Lieberkuhnsche Driisen (Oder eral days. As the disease progre es, the cries become le fre- Krypten). It., glandole di Lieberkuhn. Sp., cripta de Lieberkuhn. quent, although they have been observed at the ultimate period of The minute, caecal glandular tubes of the mucosa of the small and the disease, [a, 18.] large intestine. They are lined with columnar cells like those covCRY^ [s. 456]