sporozoicadj.
/ˌspɒrə(ʊ)ˈzəʊɪk/, /ˌspɔːrə(ʊ)ˈzəʊɪk/, U.S. /ˌspɔrəˈzoʊɪk/ Biology. Now rare.
= sporozoan adj.
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1892 Bot. Gaz. 17 109 A sporophytic or sporozoic organism might be defined briefly as one that develops primarily from a segmentation-cell..and normally forms in turn perfect reproductive cells or spores.
1894 Lancet 3 Nov. 1025 The shuttle-shaped spores..so frequent in sporozoic infection of animals.
1929 Trans. Royal Soc. Trop. Med. & Hygiene 22 461 The proportion of Anopheles..infected is particularly high at Stanleyville—about 10 per cent. for the sporozoic index.
1996 AIDS Weekly (Nexis) 1 Apr. 6 In developing a malaria Ty-VLP, researchers are targeting the sporozoic, pre-erythrocytic stage of the malaria parasite.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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