excyst

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excyst (third-person singular simple present excysts, present participle excysting, simple past and past participle excysted)

  1. (biology, intransitive) To undergo excystation.
    • 1957, Charles Franklin Craig, Ernest Carroll Faust, Craig and Faust's Clinical Parasitology, page 561:
      The metacercarias excyst in the duodenum and migrate through the intestinal wall into the body cavity []