单词 | promastigote |
释义 | promastigoten. Zoology and Medicine. A flagellated or leptomonad stage in the life cycle of some parasitic protozoans of the family Trypanosomidae; a trypanosome of this stage. Frequently attributive or as adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Flagellata or Mastigophora > subclass Flagellidia > [noun] > family Trypanosomidae or Trypanosomatidae > member of > member of genus Leishmania > flagellated form promastigote1966 1966 C. A. Hoare & F. G. Wallace in Nature 17 Dec. 1386/1 We have devised the following terms. (1) Amastigote... (2) Promastigote..for former ‘leptomonad’ stage, represented by forms with antenuclear kinetoplast... (3) Opisthomastigote... (4) Epimastigote... (5)Trypomastigote. 1976 Nature 19 Aug. 689/1 Transformation from the mammalian (amastigote) stage of L. donovani to the insect and/or culture (promastigote) stage is inhibited by host hamster spleen homogenates. 1990 Lancet 26 May 1265/1 The technique was standardised when methods for culturing promastigotes became available. 1999 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 96 11018/1 Irradiated macrophages..were infected with promastigote stationary-phase Leishmania. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1966 |
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