Meanings
verbexcyst (third-person singular simple present excysts, present participle excysting, simple past and past participle excysted)
present singular third person excysts · participle present excysting · participle past excysted · past excysted
- intransitivebiologyTo undergo excystation.
The metacercarias excyst in the duodenum and migrate through the intestinal wall into the body cavity […]
1957, Charles Franklin Craig, Ernest Carroll Faust, Craig and Faust's Clinical Parasitology, page 561
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “excyst,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/excyst.
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