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Electron-dense club-shaped, tubular or saccular organelles extending back from the anterior end of sporozoites and other stages of certain sporozoans in the subphylum Apicomplexa.
Synonyms: paired organelles, toxoneme.
Origin: G. Rhopalon, club
(05 Mar 2000)
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