Coccidium

(kok-sid' -e-uin). I.In biology, applied (a) to the spore-bearing conceptacle of certain algre, and (b) to egg-shaped psorosperms. 2. A genus of protozoans, by some referred to as the so-called psorosperms (see Psorosperm). See Coccidia . C. oviforme has been found in intestinal epithelium, and in the liver of man, and often in the liver of the rabbit. True coccidia are non-motile cell-parasites. C. sarkolytus, the name given by Adamkiewicz to the parasite of carcinoma.