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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

Also an encysted tumour containing matter of a curdy appearance.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various

In the first flush of independence he felt a certain content, but his was too intense a nature—he was cursed with too much knowledge and ambition—and the encysted leaven began to work.

From The Song of the Wolf by Mayer, Frank

The anasarca does not appear until the encysted dropsy is very far advanced.

From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by Withering, William