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trypanosomes

trypanosomes is the plural of trypanosome.

Meaning of trypanosome

Noun

trypanosome (plural trypanosomes)

  1. Trypanosoma brucei, a major human pathogen that causes sleeping sickness.
  2. Trypanosoma cruzi, a major human pathogen that causes Chagas disease.
  3. Trypomastigotes, a morphological class of trypanosomatids with a flagellum laterally attached to the cell body.

Questions about trypanosomes

What is trypanosomes the plural of?
Trypanosomes is the plural of trypanosome.

Words near trypanosomes in the dictionary

  1. trypanosomaiasis
  2. trypanosomal
  3. trypanosomatid
  4. trypanosomatids
  5. trypanosome
  6. trypanosomes
  7. trypanosomiases
  8. trypanosomiasis
  9. trypanosomic
  10. trypanosomicide
  11. trypanosomicides

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