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stercoˈrarian, n. and a.
[f. L. stercorāri-us (see stercorary) + -ous.]
†A. n.
1. A derisive appellation for a physician following obsolete methods of practice. Obs. rare.
1651N. Biggs New Dispens. ⁋11 The old stercorarian and snaile-creeper, the Galenist.
2. = stercoranist. Obs. rare.
1728Chambers Cycl., Stercorarians, or Stercoranists.
B. adj. Biol. [f. mod.L. Stercoraria, name of a section of the genus Trypanosoma (C. A. Hoare 1964, in Jrnl. Protozool. XI. 203/1).] Used to designate those species of Trypanosoma which occur in the digestive tract of the secondary host, and are transmitted in its fæces. Cf. salivarian a.
1964C. A. Hoare in Jrnl. Protozool. XI. 203/2 It must be admitted that not all Stercorarian trypanosomes can be fitted with certainty into the above subgenera,..since the life cycle of many of them is still unknown. 1971,1977[see salivarian a.]. |