Definitions
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 byschizogony .
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Examples
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Mature Plasmodium vivax schizont containing 18 merozoites.
Malaria 2008
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The young trophozoite or the ring stage grows substantially to form schizont.
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Finally, it undergoes 4-5 rounds of binary divisions during the schizont stage, producing 8-36 new merozoites that burst from the host cell to invade new erythrocytes, beginning another round of infection.
WN.com - Articles related to Africa making dramatic strides in malaria fight 2010
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The young trophozoite or the ring stage grows substantially to form schizont.
WN.com - Articles related to Africa making dramatic strides in malaria fight 2010
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Finally, it undergoes 4-5 rounds of binary divisions during the schizont stage, producing 8-36 new merozoites that burst from the host cell to invade new erythrocytes, beginning another round of infection.
WN.com - Articles related to Africa making dramatic strides in malaria fight 2010
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Close to the center there is a schizont and on the left a trophozoite.
WN.com - Articles related to Africa making dramatic strides in malaria fight 2010
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Finally, it undergoes 4-5 rounds of binary divisions during the schizont stage, producing 8-36 new merozoites that burst from the host cell to invade new erythrocytes, beginning another round of infection.
WN.com - Articles related to Africa making dramatic strides in malaria fight 2010
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The young trophozoite or the ring stage grows substantially to form schizont.
WN.com - Articles related to Africa making dramatic strides in malaria fight 2010
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The young trophozoite or the ring stage grows substantially to form schizont.
WN.com - Articles related to Africa making dramatic strides in malaria fight 2010
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Finally, it undergoes 4-5 rounds of binary divisions during the schizont stage, producing 8-36 new merozoites that burst from the host cell to invade new erythrocytes, beginning another round of infection.
WN.com - Articles related to Africa making dramatic strides in malaria fight 2010
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