plasmodium

[ UK /plæzmˈə‍ʊdi‍əm/ ]
[ US /pɫæzˈmoʊdiəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. multinucleate sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of such organisms as slime molds
  2. parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans
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How To Use plasmodium In A Sentence

  • Invasion and growth of Plasmodium falciparum is inhibited in fractionated thalassaemic erythrocytes. Parasite Rex
  • He refers again and again to it as some kind of refutation of “Darwinism”, completely clueless as to understanding that humanity is engaged in a pharmaceuticallly-driven coevolutionary arms race with Plasmodium. No metazoan is an island - The Panda's Thumb
  • However, to a low extent, viable spores can also be recovered from a very small population of homozygous diploid nuclei in an otherwise haploid plasmodium.
  • In 1880, scientists isolated a one-cell parasite called a plasmodium that is the real cause of the disease. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The sexual phase of the Plasmodium life cycle is completed with the fertilization of a macrogamete by a flagellar microgamete, and the subsequent generation of sporozoites.
  • In that group of mosquitoes, not a single Plasmodium oocyst managed to form. Medgadget
  • Although the four as listed above cause malaria when injected into the human body, plasmodium falciparum has a capacity to cause severe or complicated malarial disease.
  • The maze experiments used the plasmodium phase of the mould, a multi-nucleate single cell, or syncytium.
  • Some have suggested that they could be used to spread desirable genes, such as refractoriness to Plasmodium infection, through target populations of Anopheles gambiae, thereby disabling the mosquito's ability to transmit malaria.
  • Malaria is spread by mosquitoes that are carrying a single-celled parasite called plasmodium.
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