Trypanosoma Definition

pronoun

A taxonomic genus within the family Trypanosomatidae — kinetoplastids (class Kinetoplastida), a monophyletic group of unicellular parasitic flagellate protozoa having a spindle-shaped body with an undulating membrane on one side and a single flagellum, which infect a variety of hosts and cause various diseases, including the fatal sleeping sickness in humans..

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Origin of Trypanosoma

  • Derived from Ancient Greek [script?] (trypanos, “borer”) + σῶμα (sōma, “body”), because of their corkscrew-like motion.

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Trypanosoma Sentence Examples

  • That one and the same species may appear entirely different in different phases of the life-history is manifest on comparing, for instance, the chief " forms " of Trypanosoma FIG.

  • Plimmer, " The Trypanosoma brucei, the organism found in Nagana or the Tsetsefly disease," Quart.

  • The generic name of Trypanosoma was conferred by Gruby in 1843 upon the wellknown parasite of frogs.

  • Dutton, who (11) gave this form the name of Trypanosoma gambiense.

  • The end by which the parasites join is typically, in the case of Trypanosoma, the non-flagellate (anterior) end.

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