sporozoite
See also: sporozoïte
English
Etymology
From translingual Sporozoa + -ite.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /spɒɹəˈzəʊʌɪt/
Noun
sporozoite (plural sporozoites)
- (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 2016, p. 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.
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 453:
Derived terms
- circumsporozoite
- sporozoitic
References
- “sporozoite”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary