Medical term:
zooid
zooid
[zo´oid]1. animal-like.
2. an animal-like object or form.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.
zo·oid
(zō'oyd),1. Resembling an animal; an organism or object with an animalian appearance.
2. An animal cell capable of independent existence or movement for example, ovum or a spermatozoon, segment of a tapeworm.
3. An individual of a colonial invertebrate, such as coral.
[G. zoōdēs, fr. zōon, animal, + eidos, resemblance]
Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
zo·oid
(zō'oyd)1. Resembling an animal; an organism or object with an animalian appearance.
2. An animal cell capable of independent existence or movement, as the oocyte or a sperm, or the segment of a tapeworm.
3. An individual of a colonial invertebrate, such as a coral.
[G. zoōdēs, fr. zōon, animal, + eidos, resemblance]
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012
zooid
- any individual polyp of a colony of invertebrate animals that are linked together. For example, COELENTERATES have feeding polyps (gasterozoids), and reproductive polyps (gonozoids).
- a motile cell or body, such as a gamete, produced by an organism.
Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005
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