| sporozoite | One of the minute elongated bodies resulting from the repeated division of the oocyst during sporogony. In the case of the malarial parasite, it is the form that is concentrated in the salivary glands and introduced into the blood by the bite of a mosquito; it enters the liver cells (exoerythrocytic cycle), whose progeny, the merozoites, infect the red blood cells to initiate clinical malaria. Synonym: germinal rod, zoite, zygotoblast. Origin: sporo-+ G. Zoon, animal (05 Mar 2000) |
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| sporozooid | An obsolete term for a falciform figure seen in certain cancerous tumours, formerly regarded by some as a sporozoan spore or sporozoite. Origin: sporo-+ G. Zoon, animal, + eidos, resemblance (05 Mar 2000) |
| sporozoon | 1. An individual organism of the class Sporozoea. Synonym: sporozoon. 2. Relating to the Sporozoea. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sporran | A large purse or pouch made of skin with the hair or fur on, worn in front of the kilt by Highlanders when in full dress. Origin: Gael. Sporan. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sport | 1. That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement. "It is as sport a fool do mischief." (prov. X. 23) "Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight." (Sir P. Sidney) "Think it but a minute spent in sport." (Shak) 2. Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision. "Then make sport at me; then let me be your jest.Shak." 3. That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery. "Flitting leaves, the sport of every wind." (Dryden) "Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned pasions." (John Clarke) 4. Play; idle jingle. "An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage would meet with small applause." (Broome) 5. Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, especially. When money is staked. 6. <botany> A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. See Sporting plant, under Sporting. 7. A sportsman; a gambler. In sport, in jest; for play or diversion. "So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in sport?" Synonym: Play, game, diversion, frolic, mirth, mock, mockery, jeer. Origin: Abbreviated frm disport. 1. To play; to frolic; to wanton. "[Fish], sporting with quick glance, Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold." (Milton) 2. To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races. 3. To trifle. "He sports with his own life." 4. <botany> To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. See Sport. Synonym: To play, frolic, game, wanton. Origin: Sported; Sporting. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sporting | Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. Sporting house, a house frequented by sportsmen, gamblers, and the like. Sporting man, one who practices field sports; also, a horse racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like. <botany> Sporting plant, a plant in which a single bud or offset suddenly assumes a new, and sometimes very different, character from that of the rest of the plant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sports | Activities or games, usually involving physical effort or skill. Reasons for engagement in sports include pleasure, competition, and/or financial reward. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sports equipment | Equipment required for engaging in a sport (such as balls, bats, rackets, skis, skates, ropes, weights) and devices for the protection of athletes during their performance (such as masks, gloves, mouth pieces). (12 Dec 1998) |
| sports medicine | The field of medicine concerned with physical fitness and the diagnosis and treatment of injuries sustained in sports activities. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sportsman | One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes, etc. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sporular | Relating to a spore or sporule. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sporulation | <biology> The act or process of forming spores; spore formation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sporulation-specific cell wall hydrolase | <enzyme> From bacillus subtilis; 255-amino acid protein mw 27.146 kD; hydrolyzes both vegetative cell walls and spore peptidoglycan genbank d14666 Registry number: EC 3.- Synonym: cwlc gene product (26 Jun 1999) |
| sporule | <biology> A small spore; a spore. Origin: Dim. Of spore. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sporuliferous | <biology> Producing sporules. Origin: Sporule. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spontaneous activity |
electrical activity recorded from a resting, unstimulated muscle or nerve after insertion activity has ceased.
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| sport |
An individual or portion thereof distinguished by a spontaneous mutation. Sports are sometimes of great agricultural worth, but alternatively, they may be disadvantageous and may be rogued during agricultural production.
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| spore |
1. A reproductive cell that develops into an individual without union with other cells; some spores such as meiospores occur at a critical stage in the sexual cycle, but others are asexual in nature.
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| sporophyte |
The diploid generation in the life cycle of a plant, and that produces haploid spores by meiosis.
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| spondylolysis |
a disorder in which the lower part of the spine is weakened by an abnormally soft vertebra
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| spo | a diet that does not require chewing |
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| spo | wading birds having a long flat bill with a tip like a spoon |
| spo | large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw |
| spo | spray blown up from the surface of the sea |
| spo | transposition of initial consonants in a pair of words |
| spo | teach without challenging the students |
| spo | feed with a spoon |
| spo | teaching in an overly simplified way that discourages independent thought |
| spo | feeding someone (as a baby) from a spoon |
| spo | tropical American aroid having edible tubers that are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes |
| spo | as much as a spoon will hold |
| spo | yucca with long stiff leaves having filamentlike appendages |