encyst
verb (used with or without object)
to enclose or become enclosed in a cyst.
encysted
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a word derived from
encyst.
Example Sentences
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The tiny, encysted worms can live in the muscles of bears, dogs, birds, cats, guinea pigs, monkeys, rabbits, horses and cattle.
From Time Magazine Archive
“You would not be in bed. You would first take a sun cure. Then you could have light exercise. Then when it was encysted we would operate.”
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
The mollusc reciprocates by throwing off its embryos on the parent fish, in the skin of which they remain encysted for some time, the period of reproduction of the fish and the mussel coinciding.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various
It had also a great number of encysted cavities, each about the size of a hazle nut, which contained a thin yellow fluid.
From Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart by John Collins Warren
The notion of a soul from a spiritual world encysted in customs and feelings developed upon it by nature, is a myth.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
