excystmentn.
/ɛkˈsɪstmənt/ Biology and Medicine.
The process of emerging or being released from a cyst; an instance of this.
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1928 Physiol. Zoöl. I. 569 Within an hour or more following excystment the animals become gorged with food.
1935 Archiv f. Protistenkunde 84 145 The contractile vacuole appears early in the process of excystment.., though it does not become pulsatile until a more advanced stage of differentiation is reached.
1946 Jrnl. Exper. Zool. 103 206 The exceptional individuals, which constituted less than 2% of the total excystments, emerged near the end of the third hour.
1988 Internat. Jrnl. Parasitol. 18 788/2 Carbon dioxide functions as a physiological trigger, setting in train events, which once started, continue even when environmental carbon dioxide is reduced to concentrations too low to initiate excystment.
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