plasmodium

noun

parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans

multinucleate sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of such organisms as slime molds

Roots

plasmaplasm- · Greek · something molded, formed odes-odium · Greek · like, resembling

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