Definition of Filarian

1. filaria [adj] - See also: filaria

Lexicographical Neighbors of Filarian

filar micrometer
filar micrometre
filar micrometre ocular
filar substance
filaree
filarees
filaria
filariae
filarial
filarial arthritis
filarial dermatosis
filarial periodicity
filarial synovitis
filarian (current term)
filarias
filariases
filariasis
filaricidal
filaricide
filaricides
filariform
filariform larva
filariid
filariids
filarioidea
filatories

Literary usage of Filarian

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

1. The Microscope: Its History, Construction, and Applications: Being a by Jabez Hogg (1887)
"It very closely resembles the filarian worm ... Another species of filarian worm, found in Thames water, is named by Von Baer ..."

2. The Evolution of Modern Medicine: A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale by William Osler (1921)
"The fundamental study which set us on the track was a demonstration by Patrick Manson,8 in 1879, of the association of filarian disease with the mosquito. ..."

3. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"It has not yet been discovered whether the migration of the filarian larva into the permanent host (man, see p. ..."

4. Elementary Text-book of Zoology by K[arl] Claus, F. G. Heathcote, Carl F. Claus (1884)
"... discovered whether the migration of the filarian larva into the permanent host (Man, see p. 356) takes place with the body of the Cyclops, ..."

5. The Parasitic Diseases of Poultry by Frederick Vincent Theobald (1896)
"In China we are told by Dr. Cobbold that there is a minute filarian worm (Filaria Mansoni) that lives in the eyes of fowls. This is of no unusual occurrence ..."

6. A Manual of Zoology for the Use of Students: With a General Introd. on the by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1887)
"After a period of activity, the pseudo-filarian becomes quiescent, shortens its dimensions, develops a nucleus and nucleolus, and becomes an adult ..."

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