Definition of Microfilariae

1. Noun. (plural of microfilaria) ¹

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Definition of Microfilariae

1. microfilaria [n] - See also: microfilaria

Lexicographical Neighbors of Microfilariae

microfibres
microfibril
microfibrillar
microfibrils
microfibrous
microfiche
microfiches
microfiction
microfictions
microfilament
microfilament proteins
microfilamentous
microfilaments
microfilaraemia
microfilaria
microfilariae (current term)
microfilarial
microfilarial sheath
microfilaricidal
microfilaricide
microfilaricides
microfill
microfills
microfilm
microfilmable
microfilmed
microfilmer
microfilmers
microfilming
microfilms

Literary usage of Microfilariae

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

1. Proceedings of the second Pan American scientific congress: Washington, U. S by Glen Levin Swiggett (1917)
"The suggestion of Myers * that each periodic appearance of the microfilariae represents a fresh quotidian brood, and that each interval is due to the death ..."

2. Human Parasitology: With Notes on Bacteriology, Mycology, Laboratory by Damaso de Rivas (1920)
"... under normal conditions the retention of the microfilariae in the capillaries is a constant phenomenon, can also be easily proved by counting the number ..."

3. Animal Parasites and Human Disease by Asa Crawford Chandler (1918)
"Still stranger is the fact that in many of the South Sea Islands, Samoa, the Fiji Islands and the Philippine Islands, the microfilariae show no periodic ..."

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