Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Mouthless parasitic corticate protozoans, a class of Protozoa, synonymous with Gregarinida, but more comprehensive, including many organisms not ordinarily classed with the gregarines.
- Plural of
sporozoön .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) An extensive division of parasitic Protozoa, which increase by sporulation. It includes the Gregarinida.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
infraphylum within thesubphylum Apicomplexa — thesporozoans .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun strictly parasitic protozoans that are usually immobile; includes plasmodia and coccidia and piroplasms and malaria parasites
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Examples
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Sporozoa – organisms whose adult stage is not motile e.g.,
Parasite 2008
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From 1897 to 1900, I published either by myself or with the collaboration of Mesnil, a series of notes on the Sporozoa, properly so-called: Coccidia and Myxosporidia, of which I reported several new species, Sarcosporidia and
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The last class, the Sporozoa, or the spore-forming animals, while small in the number of known species, only about three hundred kinds being known, is extremely important.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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In some instances the parasite is always present in the host and some hosts may harbor several different species of Sporozoa.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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The class Sporozoa is divided into five small groups or orders.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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The Sporozoa vary greatly in appearance, organization and life-history.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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Sporozoa, like the malaria organism which the mosquito introduces into man's body. (_c_) Others were neither very active nor very passive, the
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897
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Since its creation the Sporozoa class was found to have protists from numerous unrelated lineages, and has not been used by modern taxonomists for some time.
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Many of the protists in Sporozoa were found to share some structural components, such as an apical complex of microtubules inside of a cell.
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