plasmodia in English

noun
1
a parasitic protozoan of a genus that includes those causing malaria.
The genome of the malarial parasite - plasmodium falciparum was only completed two years ago.
2
a form within the life cycle of some simple organisms such as slime molds, typically consisting of a mass of naked protoplasm containing many nuclei.
The haploid myxamoebae act as isogametes; individuals of different mating types pair and fuse to form diploid zygotes that develop into macroscopic, diploid plasmodia after repeated mitotic cycles without cell division.

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1. The earliest stage observed was an Amoebula which developed into multinucleate plasmodia.3

2. This process, observed only in young plasmodia, involves the abstriction of aphanoplasmodial pseudopodia.

3. Malaria parasites —protozoans called Plasmodia— are introduced into the human bloodstream through the bite of a female Anopheles mosquito.

4. Blood parasites are malaria plasmodia, microfilaria species, trypanosomes (the causative agents of African sleeping sickness and South American Chagas disease) and the causative agents of schistosomiasis of the bladder and the intestine.