sporo-, spor-, spori-, -sporium

The killing of spores.

A diagnostic method in relation to the mycoses: The diagnostic or symptomatic approach of sporoagglutination is based upon the knowledge that the blood of patients with ailments induced by fungi cosists of certain agglutinins that cause clumping of the spores of these organisms.

The distribution of minute (tiny) seeds, fruit, or spores by wind.

A minute tubular structure in the walls of certain gregarine sporocysts, through which spores are passed.

Gregarines are protozoans that live as a parasite in the digestive tracts of some insects, arthropods, annelids, and other invertebrates and sporocysts are protective cases or cysts in which sporozoites develop and from which they are transferred to different hosts.