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Definition of Schizont

Schizont
Schizont Schi"zont (sk[imac]"z[o^]nt or sk[imac]z"[o^]nt), n. [Gr. ?, ?, p.pr., cleaving.] (Zo["o]l.) In certain Sporozoa, a cell formed by the growth of a sporozoite or merozoite (in a cell or corpuscle of the host) which segment by superficial cleavage, without encystment or conjugation, into merozoites.

Meaning of Schizont from wikipedia

- process, the organism is known as a meront or schizont. Cytokinesis next subdivides the multinucleated schizont into numerous identical daughter cells called...
- merozoites invade the erythrocytes (red blood cells) to form trophozoites, schizonts and gametocytes, during which the symptoms of malaria are produced. In...
- probably derived from the haemoglobin of the infected red blood cell. Schizonts (also called meronts): As large as a normal red cell; thus the parasitized...
- The rosette is a formation characteristic of schizonts in infection by the reptile parasites Plasmodium tropiduri and P. holaspi or by the fish parasite...
- merozoites mature into an erythrocytic stage called schizonts which contain merozoites. The schizonts, an infected erythrocyte, then rupture to release...
- Cytomeres are structures that are formed when the contents of a single large schizont are separated into multiple daughter cells, in the course of schizogony...
- expressed in the schizont-infected RBCs. Mice vaccinated with the recombinant PfSEA-1 produced antibodies that interrupted the schizont rupture from the...
- animal. Sporozoites enter lymphoblasts to form a schizont. There is a clonal expansion of schizonts and then multiply by merging to form merozoites. The...
- cells also have fimbriated edges (the so-called "comet cell"). The mature schizonts of P. ovale never have more than twelve nuclei within them and this is...
- A Leishman stain showing the schizont stage of Plasmodium vivax malaria parasite...