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excyst

excyst verb: to undergo excystation.

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To 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

Forms of excyst

third-person singular presentexcysts
present participleexcysting
past participleexcysted
pastexcysted

Questions about excyst

What does excyst mean?
Excyst means to undergo excystation.
What part of speech is excyst?
Excyst is a verb.
What is the past tense of excyst?
The past tense of excyst is excysted.

Words near excyst in the dictionary

  1. excyclotorsion
  2. excyclotropia
  3. excyclotropias
  4. excyclotropic
  5. excyclovergence
  6. excyst
  7. excystation
  8. excystations
  9. excysted
  10. excysting
  11. excystment

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