coccidia
noun plural
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Medical Definition of coccidia
1 capitalized : 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
2 : sporozoans of the order Coccidia
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