hypnozoite

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A dormant stage in the life cycle of some species of the malaria parasite Plasmodium (mainly) in the liver. It is formed directly (no multiplication takes place) from a sporozoite injected by the mosquito. However, not all of these inoculated sporozoites form hypnozoites. The reason(s) why some do and others don't is unknown.

词形变化

hypnozoites plural

词源

From hypno- + -zoite.
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