Definition of "encysts" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of encyst. (verb)

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• "In this stage it grows into a cercaria which possesses a single opening digestive tract, suckers and a tail, enabling it to leave the snail and seek out the secondary intermediate host, usually an arthropod or a fish, where it encysts, becoming a metacercaria."
• "This snail, common throughout the Orient, is a vector of lung flukes, a parasitic flatworm that encysts in the lungs of livestock, wildlife, and people, causing debilitation and sometimes death."
• "The embryo next penetrates into the body of certain snails and encysts."