| MCU | malaria control unit; maximum care unit; micturating cystourethrography; motor cortex unit |
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| MIg | malaria immunoglobulin; measles immunoglobulin; membrane immunoglobulin |
| MT | magnetization transfer; malaria therapy; malignant teratoma; mammary tumor; mammilothalamic tract; m... |
| NMA | National Malaria Association; National Medical Association; neurogenic muscular atrophy; N-nitroso-N... |
| RIM | radioisotope medicine; recurrent induced malaria; relative-intensity measure |
| temporary parasite | An organism accidentally ingested that survives briefly in the intestine. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| tertian parasite | A protozoan parasite that causes vivax malaria (malaria, vivax). This species is found almost everywhere malaria is endemic and is the only one that has a range extending into the temperate regions. (12 Dec 1998) |
| euroxenous parasite | A parasite with a broad or non-specific host range. (05 Mar 2000) |
| facultative parasite | An organism that may either lead an independent existence or live as a parasite, in contrast to obligate parasite. (05 Mar 2000) |
| acute malaria | A form of malaria that may be intermittent or remittent, consisting of a chill accompanied and followed by fever with its attendant general symptoms, and terminating in a sweating stage; the paroxysms, caused by release of merozoites from infected cells, recur every 48 hours in tertian (vivax or ovale) malaria, every 72 hours in quartan (malariae) malaria, and at indefinite but frequent intervals, usually about 48 hours, in malignant tertian (falciparum) malaria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| algid malaria | A form of falciparum malaria chiefly involving the gut and other abdominal viscera; gastric algid malaria is characterised by persistent vomiting; dysenteric algid malaria is characterised by bloody diarrheic stools in which enormous numbers of infected red blood cells are found. (05 Mar 2000) |
| autochthonous malaria | Disease acquired by mosquito transmission in an area where malaria regularly occurs. (05 Mar 2000) |
| avian malaria | <veterinary> Plasmodial infections of domestic and wild birds, transmitted chiefly by culicine mosquitoes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| benign tertian malaria | <disease, microbiology> A type of malaria caused by the protozoan Plasmodium vivax, it isthe most common form of the disease, is rarely fatal but is the most difficult to cure, and is characterised by fevers that typically occur every other day. (11 Nov 1997) |
| bilious remittent malaria | A form of falciparum malaria characterised by bilious vomiting, bilious diarrhoea, etc. (05 Mar 2000) |
| malaria | In humans, the set of diseases caused by infection by the protozoans Plasmodium vivax causing the tertian type, P. Malariae the quartan type and P. Falciparum the quotidian or irregular type of disease, the names referring to the frequency of fevers. The fevers occur when the merozoites are released from the erythrocytes. The organisms are transmitted by the Anopheles mosquito. (18 Nov 1997) |
| malaria, avian | Any of a group of infections of fowl caused by protozoa of the genera plasmodium, leucocytozoon, and haemoproteus. The life cycles of these parasites and the disease produced bears strong resemblance to those observed in human malaria. (12 Dec 1998) |
| malaria, cerebral | A condition that is most commonly seen as a severe complication of malaria, falciparum mainly involving the brain. It has also been reported to occur as a result of infection with other plasmodium species. This disease is often fatal and presents as disturbances in consciousness ranging from somnolence to coma, major motor seizures, and organic psychosis. The onset may be gradual or sudden following a convulsion. (12 Dec 1998) |
| malaria comatosa | Falciparum malaria complicated by coma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| malariae malaria | A malarial fever with paroxysms that recur every 72 hours or every fourth day, reckoning the day of the paroxysm as the first; due to the schizogony and release of merozoites from infected cells, with invasion of new red blood corpuscles by Plasmodium malariae. Synonym: quartan fever, quartan malaria. (05 Mar 2000) |