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Definition of plasmodium

parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans
multinucleate sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of such organisms as slime molds

Similar Words: Plasmodium vivax, malaria parasite

Member Meronyms: genus Plasmodium

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