Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The process of becoming or the state of being encysted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc.
- noun (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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- noun The formation of a
cyst - noun The process of becoming enclosed by a cyst
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Examples
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It is common to all of the protozoa to develop forms which have great powers of resistance, this being due in some cases to encystment, in which condition a resistant membrane is formed on the outside, in others to the production of spores.
Disease and Its Causes William Thomas Councilman
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The encystment of the protoplasm (occurring under conditions upon which naturalists do not seem agreed [1]) is to all appearance protective from an unfavourable environment, but it is often a period of internal change as well, resulting in a segregation within the mass of numerous small units, followed by a breakup of the whole into these units.
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895
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Weismaun, encystment of protoplasm, 68; length of life and somatic cells, 96; origin of death, 83; tendency to early reproductiveness, 98.
The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895
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Tardigrades have five routes which they employ to enter latency: encystment, anoxybiosis, cryobiosis, osmobiosis and anhydrobiosis.
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Mycobacteria were further entrapped within amoebal cysts, and survived encystment as demonstrated by subculturing.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Iskandar Ben Salah 2010
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Mycobacteria were further entrapped within amoebal cysts, and survived encystment as demonstrated by subculturing.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Iskandar Ben Salah 2010
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Mycobacteria were further entrapped within amoebal cysts, and survived encystment as demonstrated by subculturing.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Iskandar Ben Salah 2010
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The deficient in the LLO-encoding hly gene L. monocytogenes strain failed to cause mortality among protozoa and to trigger protozoan encystment.
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Mycobacteria were further entrapped within amoebal cysts, and survived encystment as demonstrated by subculturing.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Iskandar Ben Salah 2010
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Mycobacteria were further entrapped within amoebal cysts, and survived encystment as demonstrated by subculturing.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Iskandar Ben Salah 2010
hierophant commented on the word encystment
'A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation'
March 31, 2008