See Also: coccidium(medicine)
coccidium(dictionary)

coccidium (iou)



coccidium noun. . M19.
[mod. Latin, from Greek kokkid-, -is dim. of kokkos: see COCCUS, -IUM.]
Botany. A spherical or hemispherical conceptacle in some algae. M-L19.
A sporozoan of the subclass Coccidia (or suborder Eimeriorina), which includes toxoplasmas and other intracellular parasites including those of malaria (plasmodia). L19.
coccidian noun & adjective (a) noun = COCCIDIUM 2; (b) adjective designating or pertaining to (parasitic) coccidia: E20.