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Medical Definition of Cephalont
1. Adult stage of a cephaline gregarine, a sporozoan parasite commonly found in arthropods and other invertebrate hosts. The body is usually divided by a septum into an anterior epimerite and protomerite and a posterior deutomerite; acephaline gregarines lack a dividing septum. Origin: cephalo-+ G. On (ont-), being (05 Mar 2000)