| 释义 |
halteridium Zool.|hæltəˈrɪdɪəm|
Pl. -ia.
[mod.L. (A Labbé 1894, in Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale, 3e série, II. 129), f. Gr. ἁλτήρ weight used in leaping.]
A name for the gametocytes of the protozoan genus Hæmoproteus, which is parasitic in birds, used when the gametocytes were erroneously considered to be a separate genus.
1901G. M. Sternberg in Pop. Sci. Monthly LVIII. 367 The mosquito..could not transmit the malarial parasite of man or another similar parasite of birds (halteridium). 1901Practitioner Mar. 278 One of the malaria-like organisms of birds, namely, halteridium. 1962J. D. Smyth Introd. Animal Parasitol. ix. 107 These gametocytes [of Hæmoproteus columbæ] are shaped like a curved sausage and encircle the nucleus in a halter-fashion, and are sometimes referred to as Halteridia, as they were at one time called by the generic name of Halteridium. |