单词 | halteridium |
释义 | halteridiumn. Zoology. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Infusoria > [noun] > member of > gametocytes of genus Haemoproteus halteridium1901 1901 G. M. Sternberg in Pop. Sci. Monthly Feb. 367 The mosquito..could not transmit the malarial parasite of man or another similar parasite of birds (halteridium). 1901 Practitioner Mar. 278 One of the malaria-like organisms of birds, namely, halteridium. 1962 J. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1901 |
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