SPOROCYST


Meaning of SPOROCYST in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ -ˌsist ]

noun

Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary

Date: 1861

1. : a case or cyst secreted by some sporozoans preliminary to sporogony ; also : a sporozoan encysted in such a case

2. : a saccular body that is the first asexual reproductive form of a digenetic trematode, develops from a miracidium, and buds off cells from its inner surface which develop into rediae

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