Medical Definition of Opalina
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A genus of parasitic protozoans found in the guts of frogs and toads. They look superficially like ciliates, but are classified in a separate group as they have a number of similar nuclei.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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