trophozoite

See also: trophozoïte

English

Analysable as tropho- +‎ zo- +‎ -ite.

trophozoite (plural trophozoites)

A protozoan in the feeding stage of its life cycle.
- 2009 February 6, Brendan J. McMorran et al., “Platelets Kill Intraerythrocytic Malarial Parasites and Mediate Survival to Infection”, in Science‎, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 797–800:
  Synchronized cultures of P. falciparum trophozoites were grown in human RBCs and incubated with increasing concentrations of purified human platelets.

feeing stage in the life cycle of a protozoan

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