trypanosome.
Any of a group of protozoan parasites which are transmitted by biting insects and infect the blood of humans and other vertebrates; family Trypanosomatidae in class Kinetoplastea
Meaning & usage
Any of a group of protozoan parasites which are transmitted by biting insects and infect the blood of humans and other vertebrates; family Trypanosomatidae in class Kinetoplastea Any member of the genus Trypanosoma, of family Trypanosomatidae, including Trypanosoma brucei, a major human pathogen that causes sleeping sickness.
Any of a group of protozoan parasites which are transmitted by biting insects and infect the blood of humans and other vertebrates; family Trypanosomatidae in class Kinetoplastea Any member of the genus Trypanosoma, of family Trypanosomatidae, including Trypanosoma cruzi, a major human pathogen that causes Chagas disease.
Any of a group of protozoan parasites which are transmitted by biting insects and infect the blood of humans and other vertebrates; family Trypanosomatidae in class Kinetoplastea Trypomastigotes, a morphological class of trypanosomatids with a flagellum laterally attached to the cell body.
Where this word comes from
Learned borrowing from translingual Trypanosoma. By surface analysis, trypano- + -some.
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