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Metacyclic
Meaning
Adj
●
In Biology:
Describing the
infective
part of the
life cycle
of
trypanosomes
outside the body of a host
Noun
●
Such an organism
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Origin
metacyclic
English
cyclic
English
meta-
English
μετά
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
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Related
Procyclic
Exoerythrocytic
Erythrocytic
Intraerythrocytic
Trophozoites
Oocysts
Encysted
Mosquito
Merozoites
Plasmodium
Pathogen
Sporozoite
Sporogonic
Tachyzoites
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