trophozoite
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See also: trophozoïte
English
Etymology
Analysable as tropho- + zo- + -ite.
Noun
trophozoite (plural trophozoites)
- A protozoan in the feeding stage of its life cycle.
- 2009 February 6, Brendan J. McMorran et al., “Platelets Kill Intraerythrocytic Malarial Parasites and Mediate Survival to Infection”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, , pages 797–800:
- Synchronized cultures of P. falciparum trophozoites were grown in human RBCs and incubated with increasing concentrations of purified human platelets.
Translations
feeing stage in the life cycle of a protozoan
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