Microzoa

mī-krō-zō′ä, n.pl. microscopic animals.— n. and adj. Microzō′an .— n. Microzoā′ria , a name sometimes used for infusorians, .— adj. Microzoā′rian .— n. and adj. Microzō′öid , a very minute free-swimming zoöid, which buries itself in the body of a sedentary animalcule.— ns. Microzō′ön , any micro-organism of animal nature; Microzō′öspore , a zoöspore of abnormally small size; Mī′crozyme , a member of a cla of extremely minute living organisms floating in the atmosphere, supposed to be the means of communicating certain epidemic and other zymotic diseases. [Gr. mikros , small, zōon , an animal, sporos , seed, zymē , leaven.]