epimerite

epimerite
The hooklike anchoring structure at the anterior end of a cephaline gregarine sporozoan; it is left embedded in tissues when the rest of the cephalont is freed in the lumen of the intestine of the invertebrate host. [epi- + G. meros, part]

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epim·er·ite i-'pim-ə-.rīt n an anterior prolongation of the protomerite of many gregarines bearing organelles for attachment to the host
epim·er·it·ic -.pim-ə-'rit-ik adj

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