PLASMODIUM Synonyms

• a mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues; a biconcave disc that has no nucleus

• small air-breathing arthropod

• a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

• an infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever

• a cell that arises from the asexual division of a parent sporozoan during its life cycle

• two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals

• an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host

• a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

• of or relating to the Protozoa

• any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic

• one of the minute active bodies into which sporozoans divide in one stage of their life cycle

• a variable quantity that can be resolved into components

• a straight line segment whose length is magnitude and whose orientation in space is direction

• any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease

• (genetics) a virus or other agent that is used to deliver DNA to a cell

• parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans

• parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans