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📖 中文释义

  1. [医] 包囊形成
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
  1. n. A process which, among some of the lower forms of life,
  2. precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc.
  3. n. A process by which many internal parasites, esp. in
  4. their larval states, become inclosed within a cyst in the muscles,
  5. liver, etc. See Trichina.