cytocyst
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cytocyst (plural cytocysts)
- (biology) A hollow vesicle, the remains of a host cell occupied by a protozoan parasite.
- 1906, Scientific Memoirs by Officers of the Medical and Sanitary Departments of the Government of India, number 26:
- He describes the parasite as occurring in the polymorphonuclear leucocytes, and as consisting of a very characteristic oblong, nucleated, unpigmented body contained in a definite capsule or cytocyst, formed from the body substance of the leucocyte in which the parasite is situated.