PROTOZOAL INFECTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does protozoal infection mean? 

• PROTOZOAL INFECTION (noun)
  The noun PROTOZOAL INFECTION has 1 sense:

1. any infection caused by a protozoan

  Familiarity information: PROTOZOAL INFECTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROTOZOAL INFECTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any infection caused by a protozoan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("protozoal infection" is a kind of...):

infection (the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "protozoal infection"):

malaria (an infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever)

amebiasis; amebiosis; amoebiasis; amoebiosis (infection by a disease-causing ameba)

giardiasis (infection of the intestines with protozoa found in contaminated food and water; characterized by diarrhea and nausea and flatulence and abdominal discomfort)

kala azar; leishmaniasis; leishmaniosis (sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies)

trichomoniasis (infection of the vagina)

 Context examples 

A parasitic protozoal infection caused by Balantidium coli that involves the large intestinal mucosa.

(Balantidiasis, NCI Thesaurus)