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27 Cards in this Set
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Cilia
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Hairs
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Malaria
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either an acute or chronic infectious disease caused by protozoan parasites of the genus plasmodium
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Malaria
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malaria literally means "bad air"
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Oxidize
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to combine or cause to combine with oxygen or to lose electrons
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Hemolysis
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destruction of RBC's
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Tenesmus
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sposmodic of anal sphincter with pain and desire to empty the bowel, with involuntary or ineffectual straining efforts
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Hepatocytes
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Liver cells
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Duffy factor
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receptor on the red blood cells for plasmodium vivax
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Sickle cell anemia
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herditary condition. Characterized by arthralgia, acute abdominal pain, sickle shaped erythrocytes
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Parasitaemia
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quanitative content of parasites in the blood
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Trophozoite
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the vegatative, active, motile, feeding and reproductive stage of protozoan. Easily killed by unfavorbel environment
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inactive state brought on by a secretion that creates a resistant membrane wall.
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Cyst
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Necessary for surviving ouside the host and for protection against the hosts upper gastrointestinal fluids
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Cyst
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Cysts of most intestinal parasitic protozoan species are the infective stage True or False
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True
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transmitted through food and water
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cyst
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Oocyst
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An encysted stage of parasite
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Sporozoite
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a spore formed after ferilization
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elongated, nucleated cells formed by the division of an encysted zygote
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sporozoite
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The conjunction of male and female forms producing a zygote
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Micro and Macro
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Bradyzoite
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slow reproducing cystic stage of a sporozoan parasite
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Tachyzoite
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Rapid asexually reproducing stage found in tissue
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Zoitocysts
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stage in the life cycle of Toxoplasma gondii
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Schizont
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collection of the divided parasite which produces merozoites
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Merozoite
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stage of the parasite that differentiates into male and female gametocytes
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Zygote
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the fertilized egg, formed from the union of male and female gametes
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the male and female sexual forms of some sporozoan parasites
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male and female gametocyte
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found in the erythrocytes
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male and female gametocyte
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