parabasal body — |parə+... noun also parabasal Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary para (I) + basal : a cytoplasmic body closely associated with the kinetoplast of certain flagellates … Useful english dictionary
parabasal apparatus — in protozoa of the phylum Parabasalia, the structure comprising the parabasal body and the fibril or thread that connects it to the basal body … Medical dictionary
parabasal — noun see parabasal body … Useful english dictionary
body — 1. The head, neck, trunk, and extremities. The human b., consisting of head (caput), neck (collum), trunk (truncus), and limbs (membra). 2. The material part of a human, as distinguished from the … Medical dictionary
basal body — n a minute distinctively staining cell organelle found at the base of a flagellum or cilium and resembling a centriole in structure called also basal granule, kinetosome * * * one of the cylindrical cytoplasmic bodies structurally resembling the… … Medical dictionary
kinetoplast — An intensely staining rod , disc , or spherical shaped extranuclear DNA structure found in parasitic flagellates (family Trypanosomatidae) near the base of the flagellum, posterior to the blepharoplast, and often at right angles to the … Medical dictionary
Golgi apparatus — Also known as the Golgi body, Golgi vesicles; in plants, the dictyosome; in flagellate protozoa, the parabasal body. Intracellular stack of membrane bounded vesicles in which glycosylation and packaging of secreted proteins takes place; part of… … Dictionary of molecular biology
Pentatrichomonas — A genus of parasitic protozoan flagellates, formerly part of the genus Trichomonas but now separated as a distinct genus by the presence of five anterior flagella and a granular parabasal body. The species … Medical dictionary
Tetratrichomonas — A genus of parasitic protozoan flagellates, formerly part of the genus Trichomonas but now separated into a distinct genus by the presence of four anterior and one trailing flagella, a pelta, and a disc shaped parabasal body. See … Medical dictionary
index — 1. [NA] SYN: i. finger. 2. A guide, standard, indicator, symbol, or number denoting the relation in respect to size, capacity, or function, of one part or thing to another. SEE ALSO: quotient, r … Medical dictionary
