tertian malaria

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• tertian malaria — malaria in which febrile paroxysms occur every third day, counting the day of occurrence as the first. Vivax malaria and ovale malaria often follow this pattern …   Medical dictionary

• malignant tertian malaria — n FALCIPARUM MALARIA * * * falciparum m …   Medical dictionary

• Malaria parasite — Any of several minute protozoans of the genus {Plasmodium} (syn. {H[ae]matozo[ o]n}) 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 Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Malaria — An infectious disease caused by protozoan parasites from the Plasmodium family that can be transmitted by the sting of the Anopheles mosquito or by a contaminated needle or transfusion. Falciparum malaria is the most deadly type. The symptoms of… …   Medical dictionary

• malaria — malarial, malarian, malarious, adj. /meuh lair ee euh/, n. 1. Pathol. any of a group of diseases, usually intermittent or remittent, characterized by attacks of chills, fever, and sweating: formerly supposed to be due to swamp exhalations but now …   Universalium

• tertian fever — see malaria * * * a fever that occurs every third day, such as tertian malaria …   Medical dictionary

• malaria — ague; = marsh fever; = periodic fever; = paludism; n. an infectious disease due to the presence of parasitic protozoa of the genus Plasmodium (P. falciparum, P. malariae, P. ovale, or P. vivax) within the red blood cells. The disease is… …   The new mediacal dictionary

• Malarĭa — (v. ital. mala aria, »schlechte Luft«, ital. Aria cattiva, Sumpfmiasma, Sumpfluft, Wechselfieber), eine in sumpfigen Gegenden namentlich warmer und tropischer Länder häufige Krankheit, die früher auf schlechte, in die Luft übergehende… …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

• tertian — [tʉr′shən] adj. [ME tercian < L (febris) tertiana, tertian (fever) < tertius,THIRD] occurring every other day so that it happens on the first and third days: usually applied to fever or a disease causing it, esp. any of certain forms of… …   English World dictionary

• Tertiān — (lat.), dreitägig; Tertianfieber, Fieber, das jeden dritten Tag eintritt (s. Malaria, S. 161) …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

• benign tertian malaria — vivax m …   Medical dictionary