Definition of Encysts

1. Verb. (third-person singular of encyst) ¹

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Definition of Encysts

1. encyst [v] - See also: encyst

Lexicographical Neighbors of Encysts

encyclopædical
encyclopædically
encyclopædism
encyclopædist
encyclopædists
encyclopædiæ
encyst
encystation
encystations
encysted
encysted calculus
encysted pleurisy
encysting
encystment
encystments
encysts (current term)
end-
end-all
end-all and be-all
end-brush
end-cutting bur
end-diastolic
end-diastolic volume
end-effector
end-feet
end-filling
end-game
end-games
end-leaf

Literary usage of Encysts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"encysts within redia. Redia with "feet" in posterior third of body. ... Readily encysts in free state, easily drops tail. Body length 0.45 mm., width oi mm. ..."

2. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1915)
"The form is an active swimmer in the surface film of a large culture, but when isolated in Syracuse watch glasses sinks to the bottom and encysts. ..."

3. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1906)
"Pairing takes place between the large and the small forms; and the zygote encysts. Weeks or months afterwards the cyst opens and its contents creep out as a ..."

4. A treatise on zoology. by E. Ray Lankester (1901)
"the intermediate host is a small crustacean, into which Bilharzia penetrates and encysts ; the host is swallowed, with the water, by man. ..."

5. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England by Royal Agricultural Society of England (1881)
"The cercaria, when fully formed, makes its way out of the sporo- sac which has produced it, and encysts itself either in the same mollusc, ..."

6. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"In small species of Monads and Bodo several individuals may become amoeboid, then non-flagellate, and fuse into a plasmodium, which encysts and undergoes ..."

7. A Manual of Zoology for the Use of Students: With a General Introd. on the by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1887)
"... makes its way into the larvae of water-insects, in which it encysts ... bores into the intestinal wall of the latter, and again encysts itself. ..."

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