sporocyst

[ spawr-uh-sist, spohr- ]

/ ˈspɔr əˌsɪst, ˈspoʊr- /

noun Biology.

a walled body resulting from the multiple division of a sporozoan, which produces one or more sporozoites.

a stage in development of trematodes that gives rise, asexually, to cercaria.

Words nearby sporocyst

spork, sporo-, sporoagglutination, sporoblast, sporocarp, sporocyst, sporocyte, sporogenesis, sporogenous, sporogonium, sporogony

Origin of sporocyst

First recorded in 1860–65; sporo- + -cyst

OTHER WORDS FROM sporocyst

spo·ro·cys·tic

[spawr-uh-sis-tik, spohr-] /ˌspɔr əˈsɪs tɪk, ˌspoʊr-/, adjective

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Examples from the Web for sporocyst

If the original larva is without an alimentary tract, the second form becomes what is known as a Sporocyst.
The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume II (of 4)|Francis Maitland Balfour
We may give more than one description of the distomian embryo as it leaves its sporocyst.
Animal Parasites and Messmates|P. J. Van Beneden
The Cercari when fully developed leave the Sporocyst or Redia, and then their host, and become free.
The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume II (of 4)|Francis Maitland Balfour
It develops during the encapsuled state into a cystic worm, equivalent to the sporocyst of Trematoda.
The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume II (of 4)|Francis Maitland Balfour

We sometimes find the cercarian age passed over, and the young distomes appear abundantly without tails in the sporocyst.
Animal Parasites and Messmates|P. J. Van Beneden

British Dictionary definitions for sporocyst

sporocyst

/ (ˈspɔːrəʊˌsɪst, ˈspɒ-) /

noun

a thick-walled rounded structure produced by sporozoan protozoans, in which sporozoites are formed

the saclike larva of a trematode worm that produces redia larvae by asexual reproduction

any similar structure containing spores

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Medical definitions for sporocyst

sporocyst

[ spôr′ə-sĭst′ ]

n.

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

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