Malaria Parasite - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: malaria parasitemalaria 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...
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...
Parasital
Of or pertaining to parasites parasitic...
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...
parasiticidal
Capable of destroying parasites especially capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms...
Ringworm
A contagious affection of the skin due to the presence of a vegetable parasite and forming ring shaped discolored patches covered with vesicles or powdery scales It occurs either on the body the face or the scalp Different varieties are distinguished as Tinea circinata Tinea tonsurans etc but all are caused by the same parasite a species of Trichophyton...
VerbarSiphonostomata
A tribe of parasitic copepod Crustacea including a large number of species that are parasites of fishes as the lerneans They have a mouth adapted to suck blood...
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...
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