exflagellation

exflagellation
The extrusion of rapidly waving flagellum-like microgametes from microgametocytes; in the case of human malaria parasites, this occurs in the blood meal taken by the proper anopheline vector within a few minutes after ingestion of the infected blood by the mosquito. SYN: polymitus.

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ex·flag·el·la·tion (.)eks-.flaj-ə-'lā-shən n
1) the casting off of cilia or flagella
2) the formation of microgametes in sporozoans (as the malaria parasite) by extrusion of nuclear material into peripheral processes resembling flagella
ex·flag·el·late -'flaj-ə-.lāt vi, -lat·ed; -lat·ing

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n.
the formation and release of mature flagellated male sex cells (see microgamete) by the microgametocyte of the malarial parasite (see Plasmodium). The process, which is completed in 10-15 minutes, occurs after the microgametocytes have been transferred from a human to the stomach of a mosquito.

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ex·flag·el·la·tion (eks-flaj″ə-laґshən) [ex- + L. flagellum] the rapid formation in the gut of the insect vector of microgametes from the microgamont in Plasmodium and certain other sporozoan protozoa.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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