encysted

Examples

• All

• The veterinarian explained that encysted larvae in the dog’s intestines could cause serious health issues if left untreated.

• The encysted larvae of small strongyles can emerge synchronously from the intestinal wall, leading to the clinical disease called 'larval cyathostominosis.'

  Academic text (2015)

• The rest of the time he remained in a profoundly eventless place deprived of all sense of history and happening, self-encysted, cocooned, enveloped in this metaphorical, if not physiological, equivalent of sleep... or death.

  Fiction book (1990)

• The research team discovered an encysted organism in the laboratory sample, illustrating how some cells can become dormant in harsh conditions.

Synonyms

C

cystic

vsencysted

• Specialized

19 7.2

Relating to a small sac in the body that is not normal and often filled with fluid

is specifically enclosed in a cyst, not merely related to or like one

I

intracystic

vsencysted

• Specialized

9.3

Happening inside a small sac filled with fluid in the body

is enclosed in a cyst or seems to be inside it

C

cystoid

vsencysted

• Specialized

9.4

Having the shape of a small fluid-filled sac inside the body

is actually enclosed within a cyst rather than only resembling it

Antonyms

U

unprotected

28 2.9

Not safe from harm

E

exposed

1 3.4

Not protected from danger or bad weather

How Enclosed

sealed

2.5

encysted

• Specialized

9.9

enclosed

1 3.5

covered

1 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology