Describing those stages in the life cycle of the malarial parasite that develop in the cells of the liver. Each parasite (sporozoite) divides repeatedly to produce a schizont containing many merozoites.
Occurring outside the red blood cells. Most of the life cycle of the malaria parasite in a human host is inside the red blood cell, where it causes symptoms; the rest is outside the red blood cell, and latent (i.e., exoerythrocytic).