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Encysted   Listen
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Encysted  adj.  Inclosed in a cyst, or a sac, bladder, or vesicle; as, an encysted tumor. "The encysted venom, or poison bag, beneath the adder's fang."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Encysted" Quotes from Famous Books



... out of the body. If it has not we must then probe for it, and if it can be located it is to be cut out when practicable to do so. Oftentimes a ball may be so lodged that it can not be removed, and it then may become encysted and remain for years without giving rise to any inconvenience. It is often difficult to locate a bullet, as it is very readily deflected by resistances met with ...
— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture

... in front of the spinal cord, fracturing the body of the first lumbar vertebra, driving a number of small fragments of bone into the adjacent soft parts, and lodging below the pancreas, about 2-1/2 inches to the left of the spine and behind the peritoneum, where it had become completely encysted. ...
— Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Vol. VIII.: James A. Garfield • James D. Richardson



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