| Bancroft's f. |
Wuchereria bancrofti.
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| bancroftian |
named for Joseph Bancroft, English physician in Australia, 18361894, as bancroftian filariasis.
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| bancroftian f. |
infection with the filarial worm Wuchereria bancrofti, of which adults live in the lymphatic system, producing recurrent lymphangitis with fibrosis and obstruction. In extensive obstruction, chronic edema may result, progressing to elephantiasis. Microfilariae circulate in the blood, where they are transmitted to feeding mosquitoes, the vector and intermittent host.
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| bancroftosis |
infection with Wuchereria bancrofti.
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| band c. |
a late metamyelocyte in which the nucleus is in the form of a curved or coiled band, not having acquired the typical multilobar shape of the mature polymorphonuclear neutrophil. Called also band form or neutrophil, rod neutrophil, and stab c. or neutrophil.
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