trophozoite

See also: trophozoïte

English

Etymology

Analysable as tropho- +‎ zo- +‎ -ite.

Noun

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.

Translations

feeing stage in the life cycle of a protozoan

• Spanish: trofozoito m