[f. as prec. + -MENT.] a. ‘The condition of an encysted tumour’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.). b. Biol. The process of becoming surrounded by a cyst.
1866. Pall Mall Gaz., 28 March, 4/2. The encystment of the parasites.
1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., ii. 96. These Flagellata … present various modes of agamic multiplication by fission, preceded or not by encystment.
