coccidium vs sporozoan

coccidium and sporozoan both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
coccidium	Yes	No	No	No
sporozoan	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sporozoan is a hypernym of coccidium; that is, sporozoan is a word with a broader meaning than coccidium:

coccidium: parasitic on the digestive epithelium of vertebrates and higher invertebrates
sporozoan: parasitic spore-forming protozoan

coccidium (noun)	sporozoan (noun)
parasitic on the digestive epithelium of vertebrates and higher invertebrates	parasitic spore-forming protozoan