protozoaladj.
/ˌprəʊtə(ʊ)ˈzəʊəl/, U.S. /ˌproʊdəˈzoʊəl/ Biology and Medicine.
Of or relating to protozoans; of the nature of a protozoan; esp. (of a disease) caused by a parasitic protozoan.
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1865 Times 15 May 11/7 Evidence of the protozoal foraminiferous organism..which..is the most ancient fossil organism known.
1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. Introd. 13 In ‘fly disease’, the protozoal organism which is the direct cause of the disease is carried from one animal to another on the mandibles of the tsetse fly.
1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 17 Sept. 643 Malaria and other protozoal diseases.
1953 R. W. Fairbrother Text-bk. Bacteriol. (ed. 7) i. 5 It is a point of interest that this disease [sc. pébrine] was of protozoal and not bacterial origin.
1991 Lancet 9 Feb. 324/1 The specificity of the rotavirus RT/PCR was examined by means of faecal samples from children symptomatically infected with various protozoal and bacterial pathogens.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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