different between sporozoite vs merozoite

English

Etymology

From translingual Sporozoa + -ite.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sp????z????t/

Noun

sporozoite (plural sporozoites)

1. (cytology) Any of the minute active bodies into which a sporozoan divides just before it infects a new host cell.
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 453:

     Ross […] was then able to outline its history within the mosquito: first, as a zygote in the stomach; then as an oocyst in the stomach wall; and finally as a mature sporozoite that reaches first the proboscis and then a human host when the insect bites and squirts its saliva prior to sucking blood.

Derived terms

• circumsporozoite
• sporozoitic

References

• “sporozoite”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

English

Etymology

mero- +? zo- +? -ite

Noun

merozoite (plural merozoites)

1. (biology) A protozoan cell, produced by a sporozoan by merogony, that may become either a meront or a gamont

References

• “merozoite”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).