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Definition of Encysts
1. encyst [v] - See also: encyst
Lexicographical Neighbors of Encysts
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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