ALL meanings of plasmodium
plas·mo·di·um
P p - noun plural plasmodium Biology. an ameboid, multinucleate mass or sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of organisms, as of myxomycetes or slime molds. 1
- noun plural plasmodium any parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium, causing malaria in humans. 1
- noun plasmodium an amoeboid mass of protoplasm, containing many nuclei: a stage in the life cycle of certain organisms, esp the nonreproductive stage of the slime moulds 0
- noun plasmodium any parasitic sporozoan protozoan of the genus Plasmodium, such as P. falciparum and P. vivax, which cause malaria 0
- noun plasmodium a shapeless mass of protoplasm with many nuclei and no definite size, esp. the vegetative stage of a myxomycete 0
- noun plasmodium any of a genus (Plasmodium) of unicellular sporozoans found in red blood corpuscles, including the parasites that cause malaria 0