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Trypanosoma

Trypanosoma

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Proper noun

Trypanosoma n

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Trypanosomatidae kinetoplastids (class Kinetoplastea), a monophyletic group of unicellular parasitic flagellate protozoa having a spindle-shaped body with an undulating membrane on one side and a single flagellum, which infect a variety of hosts and cause various diseases, including the fatal sleeping sickness in humans..

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Noun

Trypanosoma n (genitive Trypanosomas, plural Trypanosomen)

  1. trypanosome