| sporotrichositic chancre | The initial lesion at the site of skin infection in sporotrichosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Sporotrichum | A genus of imperfect fungi (Hyphomycetes) that are usually common contaminants. Origin: Mod. L. Fr. G. Sporos, seed, + thrix, hair (05 Mar 2000) |
| sporozoa | Nonmotile parasitic protozoa. (09 Oct 1997) |
| sporozoan | 1. An individual organism of the class Sporozoea. Synonym: sporozoon. 2. Relating to the Sporozoea. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Sporozoasida | A class of homoxenous or heteroxenous parasitic protozoa exhibiting both sexual and asexual phases. Locomotion is by body flexion, gliding, or undulations of longitudinal ridges. Pseudopods, if present, are used only for feeding. It comprises three subclasses: gregarinia, coccidia, and piroplasmia. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sporozoea | A class of homoxenous or heteroxenous parasitic protozoa exhibiting both sexual and asexual phases. Locomotion is by body flexion, gliding, or undulations of longitudinal ridges. Pseudopods, if present, are used only for feeding. It comprises three subclasses: gregarinia, coccidia, and piroplasmia. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sporozoea infections | Infections with protozoa of the class sporozoea. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sporozoid | <botany> Same as Zoospore. Origin: Spore + Gr. An animal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| 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) |
| 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) |