Definition of Encysting

1. Verb. (present participle of encyst) ¹

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Definition of Encysting

1. encyst [v] - See also: encyst

Lexicographical Neighbors of Encysting

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

Literary usage of Encysting

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

1. The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1883)
"i ,1 i- inK cyst, a gelatinous mass, e, containing the gem- In the simplest form of the 'encysting process,' indeed, the animalcule seems to remain ..."

2. The Micrographic Dictionary: A Guide to the Examination and Investigation of by John William Griffith, Arthur Henfrey (1883)
"The metamorphosis of the Infusoria has been noticed above ; but there is another method by which the individual is preserved for a time, the encysting ..."

3. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1908)
"As in the processes leading up to encysting, so in these depressed animals, abnormally stocked with nuclear materials, ..."

4. The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London by Microscopical Society of London (1854)
"notice of the occurrence of an encysting process that first attracted Dr. ... He felt it necessary to inquire whether the encysting process was of the same ..."

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