encystments

Noun

 * 1) * 1961, Stanisław Lem, Solaris (2011 translation), chapter 6:
 * Maybe the ocean was responding to the radiation with another kind of radiation. Maybe it was using it to probe our brains and get them to release some kind of mental encystments ... processes separated from the rest of the mind, enclosed, suppressed, walled in. Sore spots of memory.
 * Maybe the ocean was responding to the radiation with another kind of radiation. Maybe it was using it to probe our brains and get them to release some kind of mental encystments ... processes separated from the rest of the mind, enclosed, suppressed, walled in. Sore spots of memory.