sporozoonn.
/ˌspɒrə(ʊ)ˈzəʊən/, /ˌspɒrə(ʊ)ˈzəʊɒn/, /ˌspɔːrə(ʊ)ˈzəʊən/, /ˌspɔːrə(ʊ)ˈzəʊɒn/, U.S. /ˌspɔrəˈzoʊən/ Biology.
= sporozoan n.The plural form is usually supplied by Sporozoa n.
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1882 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 2 519 They are clearly parasitic organisms, probably the young stage of a sporozoon allied to Sarcocystis or to Coccidium.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. iii. 37 The young Sporozoön is often amoeboid in its young stages, as is well illustrated in the life-history of the Sporozoön that causes malaria.
1963 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 42 330/2 Another patient who died 665 days after transplantation had severe pancreatitis in addition..to an unidentified sporozoon in the liver.
2003 FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 224 162/1 As a sporozoon, its sexual reproduction occurs in the intestine of its definitive hosts, the cat.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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