sporozoite

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See also: sporozoïte

English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From translingual Sporozoa + -ite.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /spɒɹəˈzəʊʌɪt/
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Noun[edit]

sporozoite (plural sporozoites)

  1. (cytology) Any of the minute active bodies into which a sporozoan divides just before it infects a new host cell.
    • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 453:
      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.

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