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cryonics
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5CRYO3 + 3n3 + 3ICS6 [with sing. v.] the practice of freezing the body of a person who has just died in order to preserve it for possible resuscitation in the future, as when a cure for the disease that caused death has been found
cry[on$ic
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ctenoid
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5prec. + 3OID6 having an edge with projections like the teeth of a comb, as the posterior margin of the scales of certain fishes
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Definition: Malaria is caused by a protozoan infection of red blood cells with one of four species
of the plasmodium: P falciparum, P vivax, P ovale, or P malariae. Clinically, malaria may present
in different ways, but it is usually characterised by fever (which may be swinging), tachycardia,
rigors, and sweating. Anaemia, hepatosplenomegaly, cerebral involvement, renal failure, and
shock may occur. Incidence/prevalence: Each year there are 300-500 million clinical cases of
malaria. About 40% of the world's population is at risk of acquiring the disease. Each year
25-30 million people from non-tropical countries visit areas in which malaria is endemic, of
whom between 10 000 and 30 000 contract malaria.
Aetiology/risk factors: Malaria is mainly a rural disease, requiring standing water nearby. It is
transmitted by bites from infected female anopheline mosquitoes, mainly at dusk and during
the night. In cities, mosquito bites are usually from female culicene mosquitoes, which are not
vectors of malaria. Malaria is resurgent in most tropical countries and the risk to travellers is
increasing.
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A species of tropical tree:
1 The following timber species are fairly well known to foreign trade: Aguano
(Swietenia macrophylla), Andiroba (Carapa guianensis), Assacú (Eura crepilans),
Cedro (Cedrele odorata), Cupiuba (Goupia glabra), Freijó (Cordia coeloiana), Itauba
(Mezilaurus itauba), Jacareuba (Calophyllum brasiliense), Louro-inhamui (Nectandra
elaiophora), Louro-vermelho (Ocotea rubra), Macacauba (Platymiscium uleii),
Mandioqueira (Qualia spp.), Marupá (Simaruba amara), Massaranduba
(Mimusops-Manilkara spp.), Quaruba (Vochysia spp), Sapupira (Diplotropis martiusii),
Ucuúba (Virola surinamensis).
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curium
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5ModL, after Pierre & Marie Curie + 3IUM: so named (1946) by Glenn T(heodore) SEABORG, its discoverer, by analogy with the corresponding rare earth GADOLINIUM6 an extremely radioactive, metallic chemical element of the actinide series, generally produced by neutron irradiation of plutonium or americium: symbol, Cm; at. wt., (247); at. no., 96; sp. gr., 13.51; melt. pt.,
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curule
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5L curulis < currus, chariot; akin to currere, to run: see CURRENT6
1 designating a chair like an upholstered campstool with heavy curved legs, in which only the highest civil officers of Rome were privileged to sit
2 privileged to sit in a curule chair; of the highest rank
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curvet
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5It corvetta, dim. < corvo < L curvus: see CROWN6 in equestrian exhibitions, a movement in which a horse rears, then leaps forward, raising the hind legs just before the forelegs come down
vi.
3vet4ted or 3vet$ed, 3vet4ting or 3vet4ing to make a curvet
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A medical term. When homoglobin is saturated with oxygen, it is pink. As blood passes through
the capillaries, it gives oxygen where it is needed, and its color becomes progressively darker.
In the veins returning blood ot the heart, blood is very dark red. But if there has been exygen
deprivation, the blood becomes so dark that skin color becomes bluish. This is called "c;yanosis".
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Re: Malaria.
What surprises me is how tenacious it is. My father moved here from India in 1948, and had his last bout of malaria 16 years later, despite no further exposure. Now, of course, many of the vector species are carrying treatment-resistant strains, making it that much harder to kill.
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