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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Plasmodium  \Plas*mo"di*um\,  n.;  pl  {Plasmodia}.  [NL.  See 
  {Plasma}.] 
  1.  (Biol.)  A  jellylike  mass  of  free  protoplasm,  without  any 
  union  of  am[oe]boid  cells,  and  endowed  with  life  and  power 
  of  motion. 
 
  2.  (Zo["o]l.)  A  naked  mobile  mass  of  protoplasm,  formed  by 
  the  union  of  several  am[oe]balike  young,  and  constituting 
  one  of  the  stages  in  the  life  cycle  of  Mycetozoa  and  other 
  low  organisms. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  plasmodium 
  n  1:  multinucleate  sheet  of  cytoplasm  characteristic  of  some 
  stages  of  such  organisms  as  slime  molds 
  2:  parasitic  protozoan  of  the  genus  Plasmodium  that  causes 
  malaria  in  humans  [syn:  {Plasmodium  vivax},  {malaria 
  parasite}] 




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