Meanings
nounoocyst (plural oocysts)
plural oocysts
- biologyA thick-walled spore in the lifecycle of some parasitic protozoans that develops into sporozoite.First known use 20th c.
Ross had found in the stomach wall of an Anopheles mosquito the oocysts (eggs) which are the intermediate stage of the Plasmodium life cycle.
1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, page 453
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Translations
Chinese Mandarin 卵囊體 /卵囊体
- 卵囊體 /卵囊体spore
Finnish ookysta
- ookystaspore
French oocyste
- oocystespore
German Oozyste
- Oozystespore
Greek ωοκύστη
- ωοκύστη (ookýsti)spore
Spanish ooquiste
- ooquistespore
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APA
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