Mer`o*zo"ite (?), n. [Gr. &?; part + Sporozoa.] (Zoöl.)

A form of spore, usually elongate or falciform, and somewhat amœboid, produced by segmentation of the schizonts of certain Sporozoa, as the malaria parasite.

 

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