Wiktionary
n. (context zoology English) Any of a group of protozoan parasites which are transmitted by biting insects and infect the blood of humans and other vertebrates.
Wikipedia
Trypanosome refers to the order Trypanosomatid and some of its members:
- Trypanosomatid - an order within Kinetoplastida.
- Trypanosoma - a genus within Trypanosomatida whose members are often referred to as trypanosomes.
- Trypanosoma brucei - a major human pathogen causing sleeping sickness.
- Trypanosoma cruzi - a major human pathogen that causes Chagas disease.
- A morphological class of trypanosomatid with a flagellum laterally attached to the cell body.
Usage examples of "trypanosome".
Their mice turned blue from this dye and yellow from that one, but the beastly finned trypanosomes of the mal de Caderas swarmed gayly in their veins, and killed those mice, one hundred out of every hundred!
The trypanosome, Castellani and Bruce now knew, was the cause of sleeping sickness!
Schaudinn that spirochetes had anything to do with trypanosomes, but it set Paul Ehrlich aflame.
To find out how long a tsetse fly can carry the trypanosomes on his stinger they put cages of flies on sick dogs and then at intervals of hours, and days, let them feed on healthy ones.
Castellani kept squinting, found more trypanosomes, in the spinal juices and even in the blood of a half a dozen doomed darkies.
Nature was not going to let her vast specimen cabinet be robbed so easily of every last one of those pretty parasites, the trypanosomes of sleeping sickness.
Laveran had watched those trypanosomes kill those mice, one hundred times out of one hundred.
That day is a day of fate for Paul Ehrlich, it is the day the god of chance is good, for, like snows before the sun of April, so those fell trypanosomes melt out of the blood of that mouse!
Shiga would call Paul Ehrlich to see its blood matted with a writhing swarm of the fell trypanosomes of the mal de Caderas.
Terrible beasts are trypanosomes, sly, tough, as all despicable microbes are tough.
The trypanosomes became immune to the arsenic, and refused to be killed off at all, and the mice died in droves.
Guinea pigs may have contributed a trypanosome infection like Chagas' disease or leishmaniasis to our catalog of woes, but that's uncertain.
That thing wriggling about like a minute electric eel, always in motion, is known as the trypanosome.
In Africa there is an endemic disease caused by a kind of pro-tozoon called a trypanosome (trip'uh-noh-sohm'.