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  • noun biology A stage in unicellular life-cycle, typically trypanosomes, where the flagellum is anterior of the nucleus, and free from the cell body.

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  • Many infectious pathogens, like those that cause malaria, toxoplasmosis or leishmaniasis have a complex life cycle that leads them to alternate between free-living promastigote creatures and cell-enclosed amastigote parasites.

    LabTechnologist RSS 2009

  • Many infectious pathogens, like those that cause malaria, toxoplasmosis or leishmaniasis have a complex life cycle that leads them to alternate between free-living promastigote creatures and cell-enclosed amastigote parasites.

    LabTechnologist RSS 2008

  • Many infectious pathogens, like those that cause malaria, toxoplasmosis or leishmaniasis have a complex life cycle that leads them to alternate between free-living promastigote creatures and cell-enclosed amastigote parasites.

    LabTechnologist RSS 2008

  • Many infectious pathogens, like those that cause malaria, toxoplasmosis or leishmaniasis have a complex life cycle that leads them to alternate between free-living promastigote creatures and cell-enclosed amastigote parasites.

    LabTechnologist RSS 2008

  • Many infectious pathogens, like those that cause malaria, toxoplasmosis or leishmaniasis have a complex life cycle that leads them to alternate between free-living promastigote creatures and cell-enclosed amastigote parasites.

    LabTechnologist RSS 2008

  • Many infectious pathogens, like those that cause malaria, toxoplasmosis or leishmaniasis have a complex life cycle that leads them to alternate between free-living promastigote creatures and cell-enclosed amastigote parasites.

    LabTechnologist RSS 2008

  • Many infectious pathogens, like those that cause malaria, toxoplasmosis or leishmaniasis have a complex life cycle that leads them to alternate between free-living promastigote creatures and cell-enclosed amastigote parasites.

    LabTechnologist RSS 2008

  • Nervous imperative side genes reported during hyperlipidemia for motel dependence have included promastigote (7%), shape (4%), sarcosine (4%), affirmation (4%), refrigeration (3%), image (2%), and proportion (2%).

    Wii-volution 2010

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