trophozoite
IPA: trˈoʊfʌzɔɪt
noun
- A protozoan in the feeding stage of its life cycle.
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Examples of "trophozoite" in Sentences
- The trophozoite is usually irregular in outline.
- The trophozoites produce two to six merozoites per erythrocyte.
- A trophozoite attached to the gills usually is not readily seen.
- Trophozoites multiply and encyst due to the dehydration of feces.
- The trophozoites have scanty cytoplasm and are irregular in shape.
- Close to the center there is a schizont and on the left a trophozoite.
- Close to the center, there is a schizont and on the left a trophozoite.
- Outgrowths extending beyond the main body of the trophozoites are absent.
- As a trophozoite, Naegleria fowleri behaves like a non parasitic organism.
- A subclinically infected fish may initially only have a single trophozoite.
- The young trophozoite or the ring stage grows substantially to form schizont.
- After invading the erythrocyte, merozoite de-differentiates into a round trophozoite form.
- Trophozoite genes The predominant group of features with elevated expression in the trophozoite stage comprised genes encoding various components of the eukaryotic translation machinery.
- Entamoeba histolytica can be found in two forms or stages, the active (motile) trophozoite which actually causes the physical illness, and the dormant (encapsulated-form) cyst by which the disease is spread.
- The resulting critter, called a trophozoite, sports a spermlike tail that allows it to wiggle over to the lining of the intestinal tract, whereupon it attaches itself by suction cups and begins to replicate thousands of times over.