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
That the Digitalis may be used with advantage in every species of dropsy, except the encysted.
From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by William Withering
Right: Vorticella microstoma, the encysted animal protruding through a supposed rupture of the tunic.
From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Henry J. Slack
