Trophozoite

What do we mean by trophozoite?

An elongated cell that develops from a sporozoite or a merozoite of an apicomplexan parasite and that feeds and grows within the host. noun

In sporozoans, as Monocystis, an individual parasite in the stage of development in which it is absorbing nourishment from its host and growing rapidly. When the trophozoite is ripe for reproduction it is called a sporont, or gametocyte. noun

A protozoan in the feeding stage of its life cycle. noun

A sporozoan in the active feeding stage of its life cycle noun

A protozoan in the feeding stage of its life cycle.

Words that are spelled similarly to trophozoite:
trophozoite, trophozoites.

Adjectives that are often used to describe trophozoite:
young, mature, early, late, large, shaped, older, active, small, ameboid, unstained, marginal, single, motile, amoeboid, stained, erythrocytic, pigmented, uninucleate, invasive, normal, flagellated, grown, binucleate, immature, treated, pathogenic, intracellular, invading, earliest, youngest, typical, ordinary.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective trophozoite:
forms, stages, form, stage, antigens, lysates.

Words that sound like trophozoite:
trophies, transit, toughest, trapezoid, trapazoid, triffid, triphosphate, troas, triest, transite, trophied.