(medicine) Malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax and characterized by typical paroxysms occurring every few days, commonly every 2 days. Also known as benign tertian malaria; tertian malaria.
vivax malaria
| Sci-Tech Dictionary: vivax malaria |
(′vī′vaks mə′ler·ē·ə)
| 5min Related Video: vivax malaria |
| Medical Dictionary: vi·vax malaria |
(vī'văks')
n.
n.
Malaria in which the paroxysms recur every third day, counting inclusively, and are induced by the release of merozoites and their invasion of new red blood cells. Also called tertian malaria.
Learn More
 | tertian |
| Malaria (parasitic diseases) |
| Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis |
 | Master pin code vivax m 505 reciver? Read answer... |
| What are the symtoms of malaria? Read answer... |
| How can malaria be stopped? Read answer... |
Help us answer these
 | What does a plasmodium vivax eat? |
| How big is the plasmodium vivax? |
| What is the habitat for plasmodium vivax? |
Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:
Copyrights:
 |
 | Sci-Tech Dictionary. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms. Copyright © 2003, 1994, 1989, 1984, 1978, 1976, 1974 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Read more |
 |
| Medical Dictionary. The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Read more |
Related answers
- What is plasmodium vivax?
- What does Malaria do to you?
- How do you get malaria?
- Where can you get malaria?
- What is malaria?
ADVERTISEMENT
Answer these
- Is plasmodium vivax is eukaryotic or prokaryotic?
- What do plasmodium vivax eat?
- Is plasmodium vivax autotrophic?
- Immunity of plasmodium vivax?
Mentioned in
- tertian
- Malaria (parasitic diseases)
- Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
- Pathogen Transmission (intelligence)
