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Definition: Protozoan |
ProtozoanAdjective1. Of or relating to the Protozoa. Noun1. Any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | 1. any individual of the protozoa; protozoon. 2. of or pertaining to the protozoa; protozoal. (references) |
Medicine | Unicellular animal, often termed acellular because all bodily functions, including food capture and locomotions, are carried out within a single unit. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: ProtozoanSynonyms: protozoal (adj), protozoic (adj), protozoon (n). (additional references) |
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 | Giardia lamblia is the protozoan organism that causes the disease Giardiasis, a diarrheal disorder directly affecting the small intestine. Credit: CDC. |  | Chagas Disease is caused by the parasitic protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi and is transmitted while the insect vector from the family Reduviidae, subfamily Triatominae, is blood-feeding on a human host. Credit: CDC. |
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Health | Balantidium coli, a large ciliated protozoan parasite. (references) | |
Giardia intestinalis, a protozoan flagellate (Diplomonadida). (references) | ||
Protozoan hemoflagellates belonging to the complex Trypanosoma brucei. (references) | ||
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| "Protozoan" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Protozoan" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 60% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 40% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 15 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "protozoan": ciliated protozoan ♦ flagellate protozoan ♦ flagellated protozoan ♦ Protozoan Infections ♦ Protozoan Proteins ♦ Protozoan Vaccines. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
protozoan | 119 |
picture protozoan | 7 |
phylum protozoan | 6 |
disease protozoan | 5 |
diagram protozoan | 4 |
protozoan parasite | 4 |
image protozoan | 3 |
amoeba protozoan | 2 |
cryptosporidium disinfection protozoan water | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "protozoan"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | protozoar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | protozo (protozoon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | protozoon (protozoon), protozo (protozoon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | وابسته به تک یاخته اغازی , تک یاخته . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | protozoon (protozoon), prototsooi (protozoon), alkueläin (protozoon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | protozoaire (protozoon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | protozoon (protozoa, protozoon), Protozoen (protozoa, protozoans, protozoon), urtierchen (protozoon), urtier (primordial animal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πρωτόζωο (protozoon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | véglény (amoeba), protozoa által okozott, protozoa- (protozoal), protozoa (protozoa). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | protozoo (protozoon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 原虫 , 原"動物 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | '"せいどうぶつ, '"ちゅう (the original notes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | protosoon, protosoan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | otozoanpray doenças causadas por protozoários (protozoan diseases). (various references) простейшее животное, простейший (primary, protozoa, protozoon, simplest of). (various references) protozoo (protozoon), protozoario. (various references) protozo. (various references) одноклітинний (protozoic, protozoon, single-celled, unicellular), наипростіша тварина (protozoon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | protozoon. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "protozoan": protozoans. (additional references) | |
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"Protozoan" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: priotozoan, Prooshan, proosian, Protasia, protazoa, protocone, protonoan, protoscan, protosun, protosuns, protoza, protozea, protozoans, protozoic, Prutzman. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "protozoan" (pronounced prō'tuzō"un) |
| 3 | -ō" u n | going, Rowan, Rowen. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-n-o-o-o-p-r-t-z" | |
-1 letter: protozoa. | |
-2 letters: patroon, pronota. | |
-3 letters: parton, patron, pronto, proton, ratoon, tarpon. | |
-4 letters: aport, apron, panto, porno, topaz, trona, troop, trooz. | |
-5 letters: atop, azon, nota, onto, orzo, pant, part, poon, poor, porn, port, prao, prat, proa, rant, rapt, rato, roan, root, rota, roto, tarn, taro, tarp, toon, tora, torn, toro, trap, trop, tzar, zoon. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-n-o-o-o-p-r-t-z" | |
+1 letter: protozoans. | |
+3 letters: spermatozoon. | |
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