Merozoite

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Merozoite \Mer`o*zo"ite\, n. [Gr. me`ros part + Sporozoa.]
     (Zool.)
     A form of spore, usually elongate or falciform, and somewhat
     amoeboid, produced by segmentation of the schizonts of
     certain Sporozoa, as the malaria parasite.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  merozoite
       n : a cell that arises from the asexual division of a parent
           sporozoan during its life cycle