An alternate or archaic spelling of hematozoa; parasitic organisms living in blood.
From Greek haima (blood) + zoa (animals), with variant spelling using double-z. This older spelling variant reflects different transliteration preferences in 19th-century medical literature.
Different spellings of the same word (like hematozoa vs. hematozzoa) show how scientific terminology wasn't always standardized—scientists learning Greek and Latin created words in different ways until the scientific community settled on one version!
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