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Definition of Sporocyst

1. n. An asexual zooid, usually forming one of a series of larval forms in the agamic reproduction of various trematodes and other parasitic worms. The sporocyst generally develops from an egg, but in its turn produces other larvæ by internal budding, or by the subdivision of a part or all of its contents into a number of minute germs. See Redia.

Definition of Sporocyst

1. Noun. (biology) A cyst that develops from a sporoblast and from which sporozoites develop ¹

2. Noun. A larval stage in many trematode worms ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sporocyst

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Medical Definition of Sporocyst

1. 1. An asexual zooid, usually forming one of a series of larval forms in the agamic reproduction of various trematodes and other parasitic worms. The sporocyst generally develops from an egg, but in its turn produces other larvae by internal budding, or by the subdivision of a part or all of its contents into a number of minute germs. See Redia. 2. Any protozoan when it becomes encysted produces germs by sporulation. Origin: Gr. Seed + bladder. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Sporocyst

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals by Gilbert Charles Bourne (1902)
"The germinal cells of the sporocyst, many of which, at least, ... The sporocyst, then, is a parthenogenetic form, and its unfertilised ova give rise to the ..."

2. Life History Studies on Montana Trematodes by Ernest Carroll Faust (1917)
"Yet if is regrettable that no attempt at the precise origin of the germinal layers has been made on germ balls within the sporocyst or redia. ..."

3. A Manual of the Infusoria: Including a Description of All Known Flagellate ...by William Saville Kent by William Saville Kent (1882)
"... 7, coalescence or conjugation ; 8 and 9, phases succeeding conjugation, productive in the last instance of a spheroidal sporocyst ; 10, sporocyst, ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Within the sporocyst rounded masses of cells are formed (mórula;), which undergo a process of invagination, producing a gastrula, which again develops by ..."

5. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals: A by Gilbert Charles Bourne, Arthur Bolles Lee (1902)
"Immediately within the longitudinal layer of muscles is an epithelium lining the cavity of the sporocyst, and forming the greater part of the thickness of ..."

6. A Junior Course of Practical Zoology by Arthur Milnes Marshall, Charles Herbert Hurst (1895)
"Development of the sporocyst. Within the snail, usually in its pulmonary chamber, ... This sac, the sporocyst, has an outer structureless cuticle, ..."

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