parasitemia
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- noun
- /ˌpærəˈsɪtiːmiə/
- Specialized
- The research highlighted that high parasitemia can lead to severe complications in patients with malaria.
- parasitemia levels
Examples
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This study provides evidence that early pregnancy malaria parasitemia may alter placentation and lead to intrauterine growth restriction.
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Blood tests showed a significant increase in parasitemia, indicating the presence of malaria parasites.
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Parasitemia levels were not significantly different between the two groups (p = 0.699).
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This problem is usually explained by the genetic variability of the two subspecies and the low levels of parasitemia detected.
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The Army and Navy reported little toxicity and more rapid disappearance of fever and parasitemia than with Atabrine.
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Relatively high parasitemia levels were found in some patients with P. ovale wallikeri infection in Thailand (12), Vietnam (13), and Flores Island (14).
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Our primary hypothesis was that the proportion of febrile episodes attributable to parasitemia varied according to simple diagnostic criteria based on the medical history and clinical examination.
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Fetal sex and gravidity were not found to modify the association between early pregnancy malaria parasitemia and uterine artery RI.
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A study published from a disease-endemic area of Bangladesh reported on the clinical features and degree of parasitemia in 13 patients with P. ovale wallikeri infection and 10 with P. ovale curtisi infection (5).
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Doctors monitored the parasitemia levels closely to determine the severity of the patient's infection.
Synonyms
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A disease caused by small animals or tiny organisms in the body
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Parasitemia comes from parasite, a word that once meant 'one who eats at another's table' and later came to mean a small living thing that lives on or in another, and the ending -emia, which means 'blood' and appears in anemia. So parasitemia literally means 'parasites in the blood', which is why doctors use it to describe parasites found in a patient's blood.