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