Very helpful - thanks to Dr. Weiss. For too long, PCOS has been an off-the-cuff diagnosis. But the words “Polycystic Ovary” are very specific … if I remember my Latin, the term "Polycystic" translates to "many cysts." To reach such a diagnosis, doctors have to SEE evidence of “many cysts”. Turns out, cysts is not the defining characteristic of the syndrome.