Definitions for plasmodium

Overview of noun plasmodium

The noun plasmodium has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. plasmodium

(multinucleate sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of such organisms as slime molds)

2. plasmodium, Plasmodium vivax, malaria parasite

(parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans)