trypomastigoten.
/trɪpəʊˈmastɪɡəʊt/ Zoology.
A stage in the life cycle of trypanosomes (see quot. 1966). Cf. trypanosome n. (b) at Trypanosoma n. Derivatives.
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trypomastigote1966
1966 Hoare & Wallace in Nature 17 Dec. 1386/1 We have devised the following new terms... (3) Opisthomastigote.., for former ‘trypanosome’..stage, represented..by forms with postnuclear kinetoplast; flagellum arising near it and emerging from its anterior end... (5) Trypomastigote.., for the true ‘trypanosome’ stage, represented by forms with postnuclear kinetoplast; flagellum arising near it and emerging from the side of the body to run along a long undulating membrane.
1980 J. N. Farmer Protozoa vi. 225/1 Trypomastigotes reproduce in the vertebrate host by means of longitudinal binary fission except in the case of Trypanosoma (S.) cruzi.
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