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Encystment
En-cyst′ment
,Noun.
1.
(Biol.)
A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc.
☞ The animal (a) first contracts its body to a globular mass (b) and then secretes a transparent cyst (c), after which the mass divides into two or more parts (as in d e), each of which attains freedom by the bursting of the cyst, and becomes an individual animal.
2.
(Zoöl.)
A process by which many internal parasites, esp. in their larval states, become inclosed within a cyst in the muscles, liver, etc. See
Trichina
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encystment
encystment
English
Noun
encystment (plural encystments)
- The formation of a cyst
- The process of becoming enclosed by a cyst