CYPHOS, or CYPHOSIS, an incursion of the spine, forming a crookedness in the back.

CYPRÆA, in zoology, a genus of insects belonging to the order of vermes testacea. It is an animal of the limax or snail kind; the shell is one involuted, subovated, obtuse, smooth valve. The aperture on each side is linear, longitudinal and teethed. There are forty-four species, distinguished by the form of their shells.