coccidia
noun plural
coc·cid·ia
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Medical Definition of coccidia
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: a large order of schizogonic telosporidian sporozoans typically parasites of the digestive epithelium of vertebrates and higher invertebrates and including several forms of great economic importance — see cryptosporidium, eimeria, haemogregarina, isospora
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: sporozoans of the order Coccidia
Other Words from coccidia
coccidial
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adjective
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adjective