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Definition of Filaria Medinensis

Filaria medinensis
Dracunculus Dra*cun"cu*lus, n.; pl. Dracunculi. [L., dim. of draco dragon.] (Zo["o]l.) (a) A fish; the dragonet. (b) The Guinea worm (Filaria medinensis).
Filaria Medinensis
Guinea plum (Bot.), the fruit of Parinarium excelsum, a large West African tree of the order Chrysobalane[ae], having a scarcely edible fruit somewhat resembling a plum, which is also called gray plum and rough-skin plum. Guinea worm (Zo["o]l.), a long and slender African nematoid worm (Filaria Medinensis) of a white color. It lives in the cellular tissue of man, beneath the skin, and produces painful sores.

Meaning of Filaria Medinensis from wikipedia

- Dracunculiasis is caused by infection with the roundworm Dracunculus medinensis. D. medinensis larvae reside within small aquatic crustaceans called copepods...
- were examined in the same year in England by George Busk who named them Filaria sanguinis hominis. In 1876 and 1877, Joseph Bancroft in Brisbane, Australia...
- Family: Onchocercidae Genus: Loa Species: L. loa Binomial name Loa loa (Cobbold, 1864) Synonyms Dracunculus loa Cobbold, 1864 Filaria loa (Cobbold, 1864)...
- African eye worm, loaiasis, loaina, Loa loa filariasis, filaria loa, filaria lacrimalis, filaria subconjunctivalis, Calabar swellings, fugitive swellings...
- within this superfamily are known as filarial worms or filariae (singular filaria). Infections with parasitic filarial worms cause disease conditions generically...
- roundworm Wuchereria bancrofti (then called Filaria (Microfilaria) bancrofti). But the new species of human filaria in North Sumatra was both physiologically...
- Rhabditida Family: Onchocercidae Genus: Dirofilaria Species: D. immitis Binomial name Dirofilaria immitis (Leidy, 1856) Synonyms Filaria immitis Leidy, 1856...
- 2017. Retrieved 17 March 2017. O’Neill, J. (1875). "On the presence of a filaria in "craw-craw."" (PDF). The Lancet. 105 (2686): 265–266. doi:10...
- from Africa by a German missionary doctor in 1890 and named the organism Filaria volvulus. Rodolfo Robles and Rafael Pacheco in Guatemala first mentioned...
- Filaria sanguinis hominis minor, due to their relatively small size when compared to another type of microfilarae found in the same patient (Filaria sanguinis...