See also: trophozoïte

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Etymology

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Analysable as tropho- +‎ zo- +‎ -ite.

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trophozoite (plural trophozoites)

  1. 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[1], 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.

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