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Noun: Coccidia
  1. A subclass of microscopic, spore-forming, single-celled obligate intracellular parasites belonging to the apicomplexan class Conoidasida (Coccidia)
    - order Coccidia
Noun: coccidium (coccidia)
  1. Parasitic on the digestive epithelium of vertebrates and higher invertebrates
    - eimeria

Type of: animal order, sporozoan

Part of: subclass Telosporidia, Telosporidia

Encyclopedia: Coccidia

Coccidium