Photomicrograph of a blood smear showing Plasmodium falciparum rings in erythrocytes.
The term "ring" is derived from the morphologic appearance of this stage, which includes chromatin (red), cytoplasm (blue), often arranged in a ring-shape around a central vacuole; biologically, the ring is a young trophozoite.
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