Medical term:

epimerite

ep·i·mer·ite

(ep-i-mēr'īt),

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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epimerite

(ĕp″ĭ-mĕr′īt) [″ + meros, part]

An organelle of certain protozoa by which they attach themselves to epithelial cells.

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