Definition of Sporogony

1. n. The growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ.

Definition of Sporogony

1. Noun. The formation of sporozoites from spores or zygotes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sporogony

1. [n -NIES]

Medical Definition of Sporogony

1. The growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ. Origin: Spore + root of Gr. To be born. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sporogony

sporocysts
sporocyte
sporocytes
sporodochium
sporogeneses
sporogenesis
sporogenetic
sporogenic
sporogenous
sporogonia
sporogonic
sporogonies
sporogonium
sporoid
sporont
sporophores
sporophoric
sporophyl
sporophyll
sporophylls
sporophyls
sporophytes
sporophytic
sporoplasm
sporopollenin

Literary usage of Sporogony

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

1. The Animal Parasites of Man: A Handbook for Students and Medical Men by Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun, Pauline Falcke, Louis Westenra Sambon, Frederick Vincent Theobald (1908)
"The independence of these two forms is questionable ; they are mostly regarded as varieties of the plasmodia of tropical fever.2 5. THE sporogony OF THE ..."

2. The Animal parasites of man by Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun, Pauline Falcke, Frederick Vincent Theobald (1906)
"THE sporogony OF THE MALARIA PLASMODIA. Forms have already been mentioned in the above description of the malaria parasites of man that are incidentally met ..."

3. Diagnostic Methods, Chemical, Bacteriological and Microscopical: A Text-book by Ralph Waldo Webster (1912)
"Development of the Organism Within the Mosquito (sporogony). The cycle of development of the malarial organism has been more closely followed in the ..."

4. Human Parasitology: With Notes on Bacteriology, Mycology, Laboratory by Damaso de Rivas (1920)
"Coccidia, however, require only one host, whereas sporogony in ... According to Christophers, sporogony takes place in the tick—Rhipicephalus sanguineus. ..."

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