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encystment |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Encystment \En*cyst"ment\, n. 1. (Biol.) A process which among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc Note: 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. (Zo["o]l.) 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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