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Definition of Encystments
1. encystment [n] - See also: encystment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Encystments
Literary usage of Encystments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Medical Diseases of Childhood by Nathan Oppenheim (1900)
"One of the favorite locations for such encystments is about the umbilicus. ...
There are many adhesions, encystments, and matting together of intestines and ..."
2. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1905)
"... and other old purulent encystments in the abdomen in patients who are very
exhausted, the author has recently thought it better to open them by one or ..."
3. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1876)
"... observes various encystments, divisions, and colony formations; but the most
remarkable of such processes is that in ..."
4. The Journal of Cancer Research (1916)
"... the number of living Paramecium, and the number of deaths and encystments, if
there were any. These five-hour records are important in connection with ..."
5. Southern Pork Production by Perry Van Ewing (1918)
"The chief source of infection seems to be by the breathing of dusty air bearing
the eggs or encystments. The method of prevention and treatment is summed up ..."