The story of the plasmodium is one of the most beautiful illustrations of the fact that there is no such thing as useless or unpractical knowledge.
The discovery of the plasmodium and its peculiarities has merely shown us the how and the why of a fact that we had known well and utilized for centuries, namely, that quinine will cure malaria.
The first question which instantly raised itself was, "How did the plasmodium get into human blood?
Ronald Ross, of the Indian Medical Service, discovered and positively identified the plasmodium undergoing a cycle of its development in the body of the mosquito.
The very sickle-shape of the plasmodium turned itself into an interrogation mark.
The notorious prevalence of malaria on the frontier is due to the introduction of the plasmodium into a region swarming with mosquitoes, where there are few window-screens or two-story houses.
The negro and other colored races, it is true, are far less susceptible; but this we now know applies only to adults, as the studies of Koch in Africa showed that a large percentage of negro children had the plasmodium in their blood.
The benign-tertian, caused by Plasmodium vivax, which undergoes its schizogony or asexual cycle in the blood in forty-eight hours or even less.
The quartan fever is due to the presence of Plasmodium malariae, which has an asexual cycle of seventy-two hours, and therefore the fever recurs every three days.
There we know that it acts by killing the plasmodium and is a real specific.
Both have flagellated forms, and both are closely allied to the plasmodium malariae.
Thus the evidence was complete, that the plasmodium malariae, like many other parasites, has a special intermediate host for its intermediate stage of development; and that this host is the dapple-winged mosquito.
Plasmodium at first milky-white, soon changing to bright red, then to umber, becoming paler when mature and dry.
A single reticulate plasmodium is usually converted without change of form into an individual plasmodiocarp.
The development of the plasmodiumceases with the formation of the spores within their sporangia.
Plasmodium dark olivaceous, the sporangia blackish if dried when immature, taking a paler shade of olivaceous, according to development and maturity.
First: An entire plasmodium spread out on its substratum becomes transformed into a sporangium, or it divides into a variable number of unequal and irregular pieces, each of which undergoes transformation.
It ought to be readily recognized by its yellow plasmodium and the peculiar vesicles adherent to the capillitium.
The newly-formed plasmodium is distinguished by its greater size from the swarm-cells, while it exhibits essentially the same movements and changes of shape.
The formation of the sporangia out of the plasmodium appears under three general forms, which, however, pass into each other and are, therefore, not strictly limited.
The chemical basis of plasmodium is almost entirely composed of complex albuminous substances, and correlated with this structureless body are other compounds derived from them.
The plasmodium Æthalium septicum occurs in moist places, on heaps of tan or decaying barks.
Hæatococcus and plasmodiumcome under the classes algæ and fungi of the Thallothyta group.
Well described by Persoon, who also appears to have observed the plasmodium "primo rubra.
At other times the plasmodiumassumes the shape of a flat cushion or plate, which then subdivides into minute polygonal segments.
The plasmodium of our species is white; as it approaches maturity a rosy metallic tinge supervenes, quickly changing to dull yellow or alutaceous.
Surely variation in the same plasmodiumcan no farther go!
The plasmodium is the vegetative phase of the slime-mould.
Plasmodium at first white, then pink, 'ashes of roses,' etc.
With the same exception, the plasmodium in every case is yellow.
Subsequent studies confirmed and elucidated this fact, and the plasmodium malariae became a matter of common knowledge.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plasmodium" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cell; cytoplasm; ectoplasm; protoplasm
