Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various parasitic flagellate protozoans of the genus Trypanosoma, transmitted to the vertebrate bloodstream, lymph, and spinal fluid by certain insects and often causing diseases such as sleeping sickness and nagana.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An infusorian of the order Trypanosomata. See
trypanosomiasis .
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- noun zoology Any of a group of
protozoan parasites which are transmitted by biting insects and infect the blood ofhumans and othervertebrates .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In many natives the action of the trypanosome is a very slow one.
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The body protoplasm of a trypanosome is generally fusiform and more or less tapered at the ends.
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These flies carry a microscopic organism called a trypanosome which is communicated to cattle causing a deadly disease called "nagana"; certain species of the fly carry a special variety of trypanosome which produces "sleeping sickness" in man.
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The parasite known as trypanosome causes both African sleeping sickness in people and a wasting disease in cattle.
African Livestock May Benefit From A Scientific Breakthrough In Fighting Tsetse Fly Parasite 2011
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Justin, for example, was lying in his hospital bed on the verge of death because his body had become home to a parasite called a trypanosome.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Justin, for example, was lying in his hospital bed on the verge of death because his body had become home to a parasite called a trypanosome.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Justin, for example, was lying in his hospital bed on the verge of death because his body had become home to a parasite called a trypanosome.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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In Africa there is an endemic disease caused by a kind of pro-tozoon called a trypanosome (trip'uh-noh-sohm '; "augur-body" G, from its shape).
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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Protozoan parasite, a trypanosome, which is transmitted from one host to another by the tsetse-fly.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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Human innate immunity against most African trypanosomes is mediated by a subclass of HDL (high density lipoprotein, which people know from blood tests as "good cholesterol") called trypanosome lytic factor-1, or TLF-1.
innovations-report 2010
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