Definition of "encysting" []

• Present participle of encyst. (verb)

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• "The brain worm protects itself by encysting and is amazingly hardy, able to survive in hostile environments outside of the host body, even in salt water, dirt, or sewage treatment plants, for many months."
• "One is that the function of the subconscious is to keep us alive, and one of the ways it does this is to create “black bags” of unprocessed emotion, encysting the emotional “toxins” that we are not ready to process."
• "After encysting in the gut, or gut derivatives the metacercaria develops into an adult at which time it reproduces, releasing more eggs to continue the cycle."