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Rainey's corpuscles
Associated persons:
George Rainey
Description:
The crescent-shaped spore of a sporozoan of the order Sarcosporidia. Spores or bradyzoites found within the elongated cysts of the protzoan sarcocystis. Occurring in connection with the process of calcification of tissues.
Bibliography:
- G. Rainey:
On the formation of the skeletons of animals, and other hard structures formed in connexion with living tissues.
British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, London, 1857, 20: 451-476.
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