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Definition of Trypanosome

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Trypanosome

1. A type of parasitic protozoan which can cause a number of serious diseases in people and domestic animals, including African sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis. The trypanosome is able to remain within a host's body for a very long time because it regularly changes the proteins (i.e. Antigens) on its outer surface, so that the host's immune system must constantly develop new antibodies in order to continue to recognise and destroy it. The trypanosome uses a large number of different genes which can be used in many combinations to come up with the different surface proteins. As a result, the host is never able to completely eliminate the trypanosome. Origin: Gr. Soma = body (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trypanosome

Literary usage of Trypanosome

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"Koch, R. Remarks on trypanosome- diseases. (Translation.) Brit. Med. J., London, 1904, 2, (1445-1449). Laveran, A. et Mesnil, F. Trypano- somes et ..."

2. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1904)
"This name has, however, been dropped ; and the rat's-blood parasite is spoken of as a trypanosome. It is the Trypanosoma Lewisii, and was the first of these ..."

3. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"It is possible that crocodiles also act as carriers of this trypanosome (Koch). ... The trypanosome fever, after lasting for months, goes over into true ..."

4. Manual of Bacteriology by Robert Muir, James Ritchie (1913)
"The trypanosome of sleeping sickness is 13 to 33 p. long (average in man 2 ... The trypanosome contains the macro- and micro-nucleus characteristic of the ..."

5. The Kingdom of Man by Edwin Ray Lankester (1907)
"THE SLEEPING SICKNESS A little later, namely, in the year 1895, came Bruce's discovery of a trypanosome associated with a ..."

6. Protozoölogy by Gary Nathan Calkins (1909)
"B. The trypanosome Nuclei.—The terms micronucleus and macronucleus are ... The nucleus of an ordinary trypanosome is constructed upon the same plan as that ..."

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