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One of the minute elongated bodies resulting from the repeated division of the ookinete or oocyst, falciform body; in the case of the malarial parasite it is the form which is introduced into the blood by the bite of a mosquito and enters the erythrocyte, there to develop into the mature parasite.

A germ liberated through the dissolving of the spore-membrane of sporocysts ; a phase in the life-history of Sporozoa.

The young reproductive organisms formed in a sporoblast after fertilization and zygote formation as with the malarial organism in the mosquito. [Gr.]