different between encysted vs zoocyst

English

From encyst +? -ed.

encysted

encysted (not comparable)

(medicine) Contained in a cyst.
(figuratively) Embedded, enclosed.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 545:
  This group included many who had been deeply encysted within the corporative fabric of the Bourbon polity – plus many for whom the chips did not fall well.

zoo- +? cyst

zoocyst (plural zoocysts)

A kind of encysted rhizopod resembling a sporocyst, except in the thickness and number of the protective layers.

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