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Definition of Sporozoan
1. Noun. Parasitic spore-forming protozoan.
Group relationships: Class Sporozoa, Sporozoa
Specialized synonyms: Sporozoite, Trophozoite, Merozoite, Coccidium, Eimeria, Gregarine, Haemosporidian, Malaria Parasite, Plasmodium, Plasmodium Vivax, Haemoproteid, Leucocytozoan, Leucocytozoon, Piroplasm, Sarcocystidean, Sarcocystieian, Sarcosporidian, Haplosporidian, Actinomyxidian, Microsporidian, Myxosporidian
Definition of Sporozoan
1. Noun. Any of many parasitic protozoans, of the class ''Sporozoa'', that reproduce alternately sexually and asexually via spores; they are responsible for diseases such as malaria ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sporozoan
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Medical Definition of Sporozoan
1. 1. An individual organism of the class Sporozoea. Synonym: sporozoon. 2. Relating to the Sporozoea. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sporozoan
Literary usage of Sporozoan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organic Dependence and Disease: Their Origin and Significance by John Mason Clarke (1921)
"The "attack," or speaking with exactitude, the adjustment of the sporozoan
parasite, is, as we have stated, an invasion of the molecular contents of the ..."
2. Organic Dependence and Disease: Their Origin and Significance by John Mason Clarke (1921)
"The "attack," or speaking with exactitude, the adjustment of the sporozoan
parasite, is, as we have stated, an invasion of the molecular contents of the ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"For example, one well-known sporozoan authority (M. ... (sporozoan) phase at the
expense, largely or entirely, ..."
4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1908)
"America, for sporozoan parasites. In the list of Sporozoa and their hosts recently
... In but two other instances have sporozoan parasites been found in any ..."
5. A Manual of the Common Invertebrate Animals: Exclusive of Insects by Henry Sherring Pratt (1916)
"... fever which is the result of the inoculation by the tick of a sporozoan blood
parasite, Babesia In.minis (see page 47). FAMILY 10. ..."
6. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1903)
"It is sufficient to mention here the various forms of malarial fever in man, now
known to be caused by sporozoan parasites of the order ..."
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