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Schistosomiasis — Classification and external resources Skin vesicles on the forearm, created by the penetration of Schistosoma. Source: CDC ICD 10 B … Wikipedia
Schistosomiasis — Diseases of liver, gastrointestinal tract and bladder caused by schistosomes, trematode worms that parasitize people. Infection is from infested water. There are three main species of these trematode worms (flukes) Schistosoma haematobium, S.… … Medical dictionary
Schistosoma indicum — was discovered by the British scientist Dr R. E. Montgomery, in 1906, from a horse from Mukteswar, Uttar Pradesh, India. This blood fluke causes hepato intestinal schistosomiasis in many domestic animals (sheep, goat, water buffalo, cattle, camel … Wikipedia
Disease — Illness or sickness often characterized by typical patient problems (symptoms) and physical findings (signs). Disruption sequence: The events that occur when a fetus that is developing normally is subjected to a destructive agent such as the… … Medical dictionary
Paragonimus westermani — Egg of P. westermani Scientific classification … Wikipedia
Schistosoma mansoni — Taxobox name = Schistosoma mansoni image width = 200px image caption = Schistosomes encopula regnum = Animalia phylum = Platyhelminthes classis = Trematoda subclassis = Digenea ordo = Strigeidida genus = Schistosoma species = S. mansoni binomial … Wikipedia
AIDS — For other uses, see AIDS (disambiguation). Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Classification and external resources … Wikipedia
Tuberculosis in China — Tuberculosis is a major public health problem in China. China has the world s second largest tuberculosis epidemic (after India), but progress in tuberculosis control was slow during the 1990s. Detection of tuberculosis had stagnated at around… … Wikipedia
gastropod — /gas treuh pod /, n. 1. any mollusk of the class Gastropoda, comprising the snails, whelks, slugs, etc. adj. 2. Also, gastropodous /ga strop euh deuhs/. belonging or pertaining to the gastropods. [1820 30; < NL Gast(e)ropoda a class of mollusks.… … Universalium
syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… … Medical dictionary
