sporozoan

Noun
  1. Parasitic spore-forming protozoan (synset 101424448)
    is a type of: protozoan, protozoon - any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic
    subtypes:
    • sporozoite - one of the minute active bodies into which sporozoans divide in one stage of their life cycle
    • trophozoite - a sporozoan in the active feeding stage of its life cycle
    • merozoite - a cell that arises from the asexual division of a parent sporozoan during its life cycle
    • coccidium, eimeria - parasitic on the digestive epithelium of vertebrates and higher invertebrates
    • gregarine - vermiform protozoans parasitic in insects and other invertebrates
    • haemosporidian - minute protozoans parasitic at some stage of the life cycle in blood cells of vertebrates including many pathogens
    • malaria parasite, plasmodium, plasmodium vivax - parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans
    • haemoproteid - related to malaria parasite and having a phase in the viscera of various birds
    • leucocytozoan, leucocytozoon - parasitic in birds
    • piroplasm - minute parasite of red blood cells of mammals transmitted by a tick and causing diseases of domestic animals
    • sarcocystidean, sarcocystieian, sarcosporidian - parasite of the muscles of vertebrates
    • haplosporidian - parasite in invertebrates and lower vertebrates of no known economic importance
    • actinomyxidian - parasites of worms
    • microsporidian - parasite of arthropods and fishes that invade and destroy host cells
    • myxosporidian - mostly parasitic in fishes and including various serious pathogens
    belongs to: class sporozoa, sporozoa - strictly parasitic protozoans that are usually immobile; includes plasmodia and coccidia and piroplasms and malaria parasites

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