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Encyst

En-cyst′

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Verb.
T.
To inclose in a cyst.

Definition 2024


encyst

encyst

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Verb

encyst (third-person singular simple present encysts, present participle encysting, simple past and past participle encysted)

  1. (transitive) To enclose within a cyst.
  2. (intransitive) To be enclosed within a cyst.
    • 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society 2008, p. 98:
      ‘Six months for the projectile to encyst before the knee can be opened safely.’

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