Plasmodium Definition

plăz-mōdē-əm
plasmodia
noun
plasmodia
A shapeless mass of protoplasm with many nuclei and no definite size, esp. the vegetative stage of a myxomycete.
Webster's New World
Any of a genus (Plasmodium) of unicellular sporozoans found in red blood corpuscles, including the parasites that cause malaria.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
  • malaria parasite
  • Plasmodium vivax
pronoun

A taxonomic genus within the family Plasmodiidae "” several parasitic protozoa.

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Other Word Forms of Plasmodium

Noun

Singular:
plasmodium
Plural:
plasmodia

Origin of Plasmodium

  • New Latin Plasmōdium genus name plasm(o)– Greek -ōdēs resembling collodion

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From German Plasmodium, from Latin plasma.

    From Wiktionary

  • New Latin, from Latin plasma + Late Latin -odium.

    From Wiktionary

Plasmodium Sentence Examples

  • Such a plasmodium bears, on its periphery, groups of rounded projections of protoplasm termed end-organs.

  • The Plasmodium falciparum chromosome 2 project was funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID ).

  • Genetic complexity of Plasmodium falciparum gametocytes isolated from the peripheral blood of treated Gambian children.

  • This will serve as useful comparative genomics resource to complement the complete Plasmodium falciparum genome.

  • The molecule prevents Plasmodium, the malaria mosquito, from moving from the mosquito's gut to its salivary glands.

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