Coccidium

[kok-sid’-e-uw) [/cd/c/coc, a berry]. A genus of protozoans, by some referred to as the so-called psorosperms (see Psorosperm).- 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 nonmotile cell-parasites. C. sarkolytus, the name given by Adamkiewicz to the so-called parasite of carcinoma. 198