different between trophozoite vs sporozoite

English

Analysable as tropho- +? zo- +? -ite.

trophozoite (plural trophozoites)

From translingual Sporozoa + -ite.

sporozoite (plural sporozoites)

(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.

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

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