plasmodium
pronunciation
How to pronounce plasmodium in British English:
UK [plæz'məʊdɪəm]
How to pronounce plasmodium in American English:
US [ plæz'modɪəm]
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- Noun:
- multinucleate sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of such organisms as slime molds
- parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans
Word Origin
- plasmodium (n.)
- 1871, Modern Latin, coined 1863 in Germany from plasma + -odium, from Greek -odes "like" (see -oid).
Example
- 1. They are caused by related parasites , plasmodium falciparum and plasmodium vivax .
- 2. Mosquitoes transmit the parasite , plasmodium , that causes malaria , one the deadliest diseases on earth .
- 3. Like plasmodium , which cycles between mosquitoes and man , toxoplasma cycles between its rodent and feline hosts , living out different phases of its existence in each .
- 4. Toxoplasma gondii is not an alien ; it is a relative of that down-to-earth pathogen plasmodium , the beast that causes malaria .
- 5. People who do not express the duffy blood-group protein were thought to be safe from infection by plasmodium vivax .