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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An apicomplexan cell formed by schizogony.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In some sporozoans, an asexual reproductive body in which spores are formed by the internal division of the contained protoplasm into few or many gymnospores.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) In certain Sporozoa, a cell formed by the growth of a sporozoite or merozoite (in a cell or corpuscle of the host) which segment by superficial cleavage, without encystment or conjugation, into merozoites.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A cell that divides by schizogony.

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