Definition of Parasitology

1. Noun. A study of parasites. ¹

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Definition of Parasitology

1. [n -GIES]

Medical Definition of Parasitology

1. The branch of biology and of medicine concerned with all aspects of parasitism. Origin: parasite + G. Logos, study (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parasitology

parasitized
parasitizes
parasitizing
parasitocenose
parasitogenesis
parasitogenic
parasitoid
parasitoidal
parasitoids
parasitologic
parasitological
parasitologically
parasitologies
parasitologist
parasitologists
parasitology (current term)
parasitome
parasitophobia
parasitophorous
parasitophorous vacuole
parasitoses
parasitosis
parasitotropic
parasitotropism
parasitotropy
paraskavedekatriaphobia
paraskevidekatriaphobia
parasocial
parasol
parasol insertion

Literary usage of Parasitology

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Twentieth Century Practice: An International Encyclopedia of Modern Medical by Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1900)
"While the researches into malarial parasitology were foing on towards ... parasitology. The malarial parasites of man belong to a numerous family of beings ..."

2. A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis by Means of Microscopical and Chemical by Charles Edmund Simon (1904)
"Chir., 1902, vol. nil. p. 121 of Beilage. Tinker, Johns Hopkins Hosp. Bull., 1903, vol. xiv. p. 182. BACTERIOLOGY AND parasitology OF THE ..."

3. Register by University of California, Berkeley, California, University (1920)
"Students undertaking research work in parasitology are expected to have had ... Students making parasitology their major are advised to take their ..."

4. Diagnostic Methods, Chemical, Bacteriological and Microscopical: A Text-book by Ralph Waldo Webster (1912)
"A leucocytosis or permanent lymphocytosis are probably the only specific effects of splenectomy. V. parasitology OF THE BLOOD. (1). ..."

5. A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis by Means of Microscopic and Chemical Methods by Charles Edmund Simon (1900)
"BACTERIOLOGY AND parasitology OF THE BLOOD. It is generally admitted that micro-organisms do not normally occur in the blood; in conditions which may be ..."

6. Clinical Hematology: A Practical Guide to the Examination of the Blood with by John C. DaCosta (1901)
"... found in the ex- parasitology. animation of the finger blood of a large number of typhus patients a micrococcus, occurring both singly and in pairs, ..."

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