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sporocystic

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spo⋅ro⋅cyst

  [spawr-uh-sist, spohr-]
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–noun Biology.
1. a walled body resulting from the multiple division of a sporozoan, which produces one or more sporozoites.
2. a stage in development of trematodes that gives rise, asexually, to cercaria.
Origin:
1860–65; sporo- + -cyst

Related forms:
spo⋅ro⋅cys⋅tic  [spawr-uh-sis-tik, spohr-] , adjective
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Main Entry: spo·ro·cyst
Pronunciation: -"sist
Function: noun
1 : a case or cyst secreted by some sporozoans preliminary to sporogony;also : a sporozoan encysted in such a case
2 : a saccular body that is the first asexual reproductive form of a digenetic trematode, develops from a miracidium, andbuds off cells from its inner surface which develop into rediae
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sporocyst spo·ro·cyst (spôr'ə-sĭst')
n.

  1. A larval form in many trematode flatworms that develops in the body of its molluscan intermediate host.

  2. A secondary cyst that develops from a sporoblast and produces within itself one or several sporozoites.

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