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Definition of Plasmodium

1. Noun. Multinucleate sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of such organisms as slime molds.

2. Noun. Parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans.

Definition of Plasmodium

1. n. A jellylike mass of free protoplasm, without any union of amœboid cells, and endowed with life and power of motion.

Definition of Plasmodium

1. Noun. (biology) A mass of cytoplasm, containing many nuclei, created by the aggregation of amoeboid cells of slime molds during their vegetative phase ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Plasmodium

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Medical Definition of Plasmodium

1. Multinucleate mass of protoplasm bounded only by a plasma membrane, the main vegetative form of acellular slime moulds (e.g. Physarum). (31 Dec 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plasmodium

plasmocytes plasmocytic leukemoid reaction plasmodesm plasmodesma plasmodesmas plasmodesmata plasmodia plasmodial plasmodial slime mold plasmodial trophoblast

plasmodiocarp plasmodiophorid plasmodiophorids plasmodiotrophoblast plasmoditrophoblast plasmodium (current term) plasmodium berghei plasmodium chabaudi plasmodium cynomolgi plasmodium falciparum

plasmodium gallinaceum plasmodium knowlesi plasmodium malariae plasmodium vivax plasmodium yoelii plasmogamies plasmogen plasmoid plasmoids

Literary usage of Plasmodium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"In an active plasmodium the duration of the flow in cither direction varies ... As the result of drought, the plasmodium, having become much denser by loss ..."

2. Lectures on the Comparative Pathology of Inflammation by Elie Metchnikoff (1893)
"I refer to the Myxomycetes—a group presenting both animal and vegetable properties and characterised by the fact that it passes through a plasmodium stage. ..."

3. An Introduction to Structural Botany by Dukinfield Henry Scott (1904)
"THE plasmodium This Myxomycete is common in some years, though rare in others; it occurs on the bark or wood of fallen trees, on old garden seats, ..."

4. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals by Gilbert Charles Bourne (1900)
"It is easy to observe that this slimy sheet of protoplasm, the plasmodium, is irritable, selective and assimilative. If the surface on which it crawls ..."

5. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1881)
"The old method was to dry the extended plasmodium, the new is to harden it with osmic acid. Both these methods are defective, for osmic acid changes the ..."

6. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"... 1902 ; plasmodium falciparum, Blanch., 1905. The names most commonly used for the parasite of malignant tertian malaria are plasmodium falciparum and ..."

7. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1881)
"PERMANENT MICROSCOPIC PREPARATIONS or plasmodium. By SIMON II. GAGE, of Ithaca, NY THE previously published methods of making permanent preparations of the ..."

8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"In an active plasmodium the duration of the flow in cither direction varies ... As the result of drought, the plasmodium, having become much denser by loss ..."

9. Lectures on the Comparative Pathology of Inflammation by Elie Metchnikoff (1893)
"I refer to the Myxomycetes—a group presenting both animal and vegetable properties and characterised by the fact that it passes through a plasmodium stage. ..."

10. An Introduction to Structural Botany by Dukinfield Henry Scott (1904)
"THE plasmodium This Myxomycete is common in some years, though rare in others; it occurs on the bark or wood of fallen trees, on old garden seats, ..."

11. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals by Gilbert Charles Bourne (1900)
"It is easy to observe that this slimy sheet of protoplasm, the plasmodium, is irritable, selective and assimilative. If the surface on which it crawls ..."

12. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1881)
"The old method was to dry the extended plasmodium, the new is to harden it with osmic acid. Both these methods are defective, for osmic acid changes the ..."

13. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"... 1902 ; plasmodium falciparum, Blanch., 1905. The names most commonly used for the parasite of malignant tertian malaria are plasmodium falciparum and ..."

14. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1881)
"PERMANENT MICROSCOPIC PREPARATIONS or plasmodium. By SIMON II. GAGE, of Ithaca, NY THE previously published methods of making permanent preparations of the ..."

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