See Also: promastigote(medicine)
promastigote(dictionary)

northeastern (oh) and promastigote (medicine)


northeastern (oh)



in or from the northeast part of a country or area
::the northeastern states of the US

promastigote (medicine)


promastigote
Term now generally used instead of "leptomonad" or "leptomonad stage," to avoid confusion with the flagellate genus Leptomonas. It denotes the flagellate stage of a trypanosomatid protozoan in which the flagellum arises from a kinetoplast in front of the nucleus and emerges from the anterior end of the organism; usually an extracellular phase, as in the insect intermediate host (or in culture) of Leishmania parasites.

Origin: pro-+ G. Mastix, whip