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Definition of Schizonts

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 Schizonts from wikipedia

- process, the organism is known as a meront or schizont. Cytokinesis next subdivides the multinucleated schizont into numerous identical daughter cells called...
- 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...
- merozoites invade the erythrocytes (red blood cells) to form trophozoites, schizonts and gametocytes, during which the symptoms of malaria are produced. In...
- infect mammals. This species was described in 1977 by Landau et al. The schizonts are intrahepatocytic and provoke an hypertrophy of the host cell and its...
- grow into multinucleated m****es - megaloschizonts. This first round of schizonts give rise to the first generation of merozoites. This first generation...
- infected liver cells ruptures into schizonts which enter into the blood of the individual (Erythrocytic Cycle). The schizonts mature and divide a****ually to...
- Within these they undergo a****ual reproduction (schizonts). As these leukocytes become engorged with schizonts, they line the lumens of veins and may causing...
- **** of the opossum. Horses are aberrant or dead-end hosts, because only schizonts and merozoites have been identified and confined to the brain in spinal...