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The act or process of forming spores; spore formation. See Illust. of Bacillus, b.

tes, or sporozoites, enter the red blood corpuscles, growing at their expense, undergoing sporulation, and finally destroying the corpuscles, thus liberating in the blood plasma an immense number of small spores called merozoites. An indefinite but not ultimated number of such generations may follow, but if meanwhile t…

Any protozoan when it becomes encysted produces germs by sporulation.

An extensive division of parasitic Protozoa, which increase by sporulation. It includes the Gregarinida.

One of the minute flagellate germs produced by the sporulation of a protozoan; -- called also zoöspore.