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Spermit: The male Mychomerit, consisting of the head which contains only the Mychomere, an insignificant cytoplasmic residue (the connecting piece) and the long, powerful flagellum.

Sporascit: An Ascit containing or constituting one or more Sporits.

Sporit: The so-called bacterial spore, a normal Dimychit which, having acquired a solid, heavily staining Sporitin particle (see Sporitin), is now able to take on a permanent form.

Sporitin: The material, stored between the two Mych, of the solid, heavily staining and strongly refracting kenel (Sporitin particle) of a Sporit, which consists of reserve materials. This represents a physical, and not a chemical concept.

Stenostatic: Short Mychostasis (see eurystatic).

Symmychit: A Mychit with a polydynamic (multivalent) Mych. Without external nutrition, it can develop into a Pseudoascit or a Ascocystit; the former decays into Dimychits, the latter goes on to develop into an Ascit.

Symmychon: A polydynamic (multivalent) Mych. It consists of not just one, but rather several Mych united to form a single homogenous body. Its diameter is greater than that of a single Mych.

Synascit: A Syndimychit with syntact Mychostases, therefore having a somewhat to very much more pronounced diameter than the Ascit. In the highest Dimychoten, the stage after the Ascit stage of Cyclogeny.

Synascota (plural): The most evolved order of Gonascota. In the highest stage of Cyclogeny, the Mychostases of the Dimychoses are not laid parallel to and on the individual's axis (catatact), but rather are predominantly oriented obliquely or at right angles to the long axis, and often two or more Dimychoses lie next to each other (syntact positioning).

Syndimychit: The union of more than two Dimychoses into a single individual. This includes the following biomorphological groups: Ascit and Synascit, Pseudascit and Thecit.

Syntact: The position of the Dimychoses in Dimychit or Syndimychit is not parallel to and on the axis; instead, the Mychostases are positioned obliquely or at right angles to the long axis of the individual, or two or more Mychostases are positioned along the long axis next to each other, usually disordered, rarely parallel to each other and to the long axis of the Dimychota rods. (see Synascit)

Syntrophosis: The amalgamation or artificial culturing together of two or more types of organisms (bacteria), in the absence of any symbiotic co-adaptation.

Telogonidy: A Gonidie that lies at the end of a Gonascit.

Telosporit: A terminal Sporit in a Sporascit.

Telotrophosome: A terminal Trophosom in an Ascit.

Triplomychit: A growth form in which three Mychits are radially positioned near each other, yet do not consitute a morphological unit.

Trophocony: The structural unit of the heavily staining nutritive reserve materials (which accumulate to a high degree in the cytoplasm) in solid form: a miniscule rodlike kernel. Under the microscope, it is not even visible as a kernel in the bacterial cell. It is intended as a morphological, not a chemical concept, since the chemical composition is guaranteed to be markedly different among the different types. A strongly represented chemical component is nucleic acid, another is nucleic acid proteins; but other proteinoid substances are also present. Trophoconies often densly coat the Mych, thus forming the Trophosomes and Trophosomelles.

Trophode: The filamentous residue of the Trophocony coat, remaining behind (in the place of the Mychomit after its disappearence) between two Mych of a Dimychose with a Trophocony coat (Trophosomes or Trophosomelles, respectively).

Trophodimychose: A Dimychose adjacent to a Sporit, a Gonidie or a Cystit which supports its nutrition.

Trophosom: The more or less solid Trophocony coats which can accumulate around any Mych - or which can also be totally absent. Visually, they stand out as heavily staining kernels.

Trophosomelle: A small Trophosom. If the Trophocony coat is quite thin, then the Trophosomelles give a distinct indicaton not only the location of the Mych, but also of its approximate size.

Virostage: The Cyclostage in which a parasitic bacterial organism either is virulent (or at least pathogenic) or its virulence (or pathogenicity) has reached its zenith.

Zoit: A developmental stage emerging from many Cystits which posess the ability to change its bodily shape at random, from a solid sphere to an extended cylindrical form.

Synathrit: An Athrit containing a Synathron.

Synathron: A nucleus consisting of two or more polyenergetic united Athrons.

Syncytit: A Cytit containing a Polycaryon.

Syncytium (Haeckel): A cellular structure resulting from the flowing together of multiple cells, or from the disappearance of the cellular boundaries between multiple cells. (Haeckel further adds to this a concept that of the polynuclear cell resulting from reproduction of the nucleus without subsequent cell division; however, since this group coincides with the above established term, Pliocytit, it has been excluded from the scope of the term Syncytium.).