Definition of hematozoon in US English:
hematozoon
nounPlural hematozoahiˌmatəˈzōənˌhēmətə-
Any parasitic organism that lives in the blood.
Example sentencesExamples
- This paper would not have been possible without the assistance of the late Gordon R Bennett, who graciously examined blood smears for hematozoa.
- In 1999 we prepared blood smears from all adults to check for the presence of hematozoa, bloodborne parasites transmitted by biting Diptera.
- Birds that were captured twice during the breeding season were considered to have been parasitized for analyses of return rates if hematozoa were detected in either sample.
- Blood smears can detect infection by these hematozoa, but are thought to have low diagnostic sensitivity.
- We found that 85% of the birds harbored hematozoa, and the intensity of infection averaged 93.9 parasites per 100 microscope fields.