1) Sporozoan
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• (n.) In certain Sporozoa, a small active, usually elongate, sickle-shaped or somewhat amoeboid spore, esp. one of those produced by division of the passive spores into which the zygote divides. The sporozoites reproduce asexually.
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(from the article `malaria`) ...mosquitoes, which feed on human blood in order to nourish their own eggs. While taking its meal (usually between dusk and dawn), an infected ... [3 related articles]
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One of the minute elongated bodies resulting from the repeated division of the oocyst during sporogony. In the case of the malarial parasite, it is the form that is concentrated in the salivary glands and introduced into the blood by the bite of a mosquito; it enters the liver cells (exoerythrocytic cycle), whose progeny, the merozoites, infect the...
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(spor″o-zo´īt) a spore formed after fertilization; any one of the sickle-shaped nucleated germs formed by division of the protoplasm of a spore of a sporozoan organism. In malaria, the sporozoites are the forms of the plasmodium that are liberated from the oocysts in the mosquito, that accumulate in the...
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A stage in the life cycle of the Plasmodium parasite, causative agent of malaria. Found in the sali
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Spo`ro·zo'ite noun (Zoology) In certain Sporozoa, a small active, usually elongate, sickle-shaped or somewhat amœboid spore, esp. one of those produced by division of the passive spores into which the zygote divides. The sporozoites reproduce asexually.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: spō′rō-zō′īt Definitions: 1. One of the minute elongated bodies resulting from the repeated division of the oocyst during sporogony. In the case of the malarial parasite, it is the form that is concentrated in the salivary glands and introduced into the blood by the bite of a mosquito; it en...
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n] - one of the minute active bodies into which sporozoans divide in one stage of their life cycle
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noun one of the minute active bodies into which sporozoans divide in one stage of their life cycle
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The infective unit of the coccidia contained within the sporocysts of the sporulated oocyst. There are always 8 sporozoites per oocysts - i.e. 2 or 4 per sporocyst depending on the number of sporocysts.
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the infectious form of the malaria parasite, which is injected into people by a feeding mosquito; a spore formed after fertilization; any of the elongated, nucleated cells by division of the encysted zygote of a sporozoon, which undergo multiple fission to give rise to merozoites.
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