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Home Dictionary Name: malariamalaria mosquito
A mosquito that transmits the malaria parasite it is most commonly the Anopheles mosquito...
Malaria parasite
Any of several minute protozoans of the genus Plasmodium syn Haeligmatozooumln which in their adult condition live in the tissues of mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles which see and when transferred to the blood of man by the bite of the mosquito produce malaria...
blackwater
any of several human or animal diseases characterized by dark urine resulting from rapid breakdown of red blood cells used especially of blackwater fever a severe form of malaria caused by the blood parasite Plasmodium falciparum...
Culex
A genus of mosquitoes of the family Culicidae to which most of the North American species belong Some members of this genus are exceedingly annoying as Culex sollicitans which breeds in enormous numbers in the salt marshes of the Atlantic coast and Culex pipiens the common house mosquito breeding very widely in the fresh waters of North America For characters distinguishing these from the malaria mosquitoes see Anopheles above The yellow fever mosquito is now placed in another genus Stegomyia...
malaria
Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease esp an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils as marshy or wet lands producing fevers miasma...
Malarial
Of or pertaining to or infected by malaria...
mepacrine
Quinacrine a drug once used to treat malaria Atabrine is a trademark...
Merozoite
A form of spore usually elongate or falciform and somewhat amoeboid produced by segmentation of the schizonts of certain Sporozoa as the malaria parasite...
Miasma
Infectious particles or germs floating in the air air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs noxious effluvia malaria...
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