Meanings
plural sporozoites
- biologyAny of the minute active bodies into which a sporozoan divides just before it infects a new host cell.
Ross […] was then able to outline its history within the mosquito: first, as a zygote in the stomach; then as an oocyst in the stomach wall; and finally as a mature sporozoite that reaches first the proboscis and then a human host when the insect bites and squirts its saliva prior to sucking blood.
1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 453Synonyms: zoite
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAny of the minute active bodies into which a sporozoan divides just before it infects a new host cell.
Origin
- translingualSporozoa
- Englishsporozoite
From translingual Sporozoa + -ite.
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