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sporocyst

sporocyst


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sporocyst  \Spo"ro*cyst\,  n.  [Gr.  ?  seed  +  ?  bladder.] 
  1.  (Zo["o]l.)  An  asexual  zooid,  usually  forming  one  of  a 
  series  of  larval  forms  in  the  agamic  reproduction  of 
  various  trematodes  and  other  parasitic  worms.  The 
  sporocyst  generally  develops  from  an  egg,  but  in  its  turn 
  produces  other  larv[ae]  by  internal  budding,  or  by  the 
  subdivision  of  a  part  or  all  of  its  contents  into  a  number 
  of  minute  germs.  See  {Redia}. 
 
  2.  (Zo["o]l.)  Any  protozoan  when  it  becomes  encysted  produces 
  germs  by  sporulation.