The bulge creates a feeling of tightness behind the knee as well as stiffness and swelling and pain behind the knee and calf. For many, this pain intensifies when flexing or fully extending the leg. Often, these cysts go away without any treatment.
transition noun [C/U]. âº the âprocess of âchanging, or a âchange from one âform or âcondition to another: [U] It was a âneighborhood in transition from âJewish to Italian with a âsprinkling of Irish.
Medical Definition of transition. 1  1: passage from one state or stage to another; especially : an abrupt change in energy state or level (as of an atomic nucleus or a molecule) usually accompanied by loss or gain of a single quantum of energy.