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单词 cryptosporidium
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Cryptosporidiumn.

Brit. /ˌkrɪptə(ʊ)spəˈrɪdɪəm/, U.S. /ˌkrɪptoʊspəˈrɪdiəm/, /ˌkrɪptəspəˈrɪdiəm/
Inflections: Plural cryptosporidia.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Cryptosporidium.
Etymology: < scientific Latin Cryptosporidium (E. E. Tyzzer 1908, in Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. & Med. 5 12) < crypto- crypto- comb. form + -sporidium (in microsporidium n., sarcosporidium n.).
Biology and Medicine.
A genus of spore-forming protists (apicomplexans) whose members are parasites of mammals (including humans), birds, reptiles, and fish, and cause the disease cryptosporidiosis; (also cryptosporidium) a member of this genus.
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1910 E. E. Tyzzer in Jrnl. Med. Res. 10 505 The genus Cryptosporidium may be defined as follows: Sporocyst absent or united with oöcyst so that the entire organism becomes a single spore with four sporozoites.
1925 Protozoology 1 19 An examination of the same material..has led to the discovery of..a Cryptosporidium in the fæces of a rattlesnake.
1953 Amer. Midland Naturalist 49 704 The principal morphological characteristics and results of cross-infection experiments in Cryptosporidium, Eimeria, Isospora and Wenyonella from the avian orders Galliformes, Anseriformes and Charadriiformes are reviewed.
1987 R. Shilts And Band played On (1988) iv. xii. 127 Simon was infected with Cryptosporidium, a parasite that normally inhabits the bowels of sheep.
2004 Zest Dec. 51/1 The UK has regular outbreaks of a chlorine-resistant, diarrhoea-causing bug called cryptosporidium, mostly due to contamination from children who don't wipe their bottoms properly.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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