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Parasite
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Veterinary Medicine
Undergraduate 4
09/02/2014

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Aberrant Parasite
Definition

a parasite found in a area where in which it does not normally live

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Acanthocephalans
Definition
thorny-headed or spiny-headed worms
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Acaricides
Definition
a substance poisonous to mites or ticks, pesticide
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Adulticides
Definition
an insecticide used to kill adult insects
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Amicrofilaremic
Definition
referring to the absence of immature filarial (slender nematode worms) parasites
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Annelids
Definition
any of phylum of usually elongated segmated coelmate invertebrates (as earthworms and leeches)
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Anthelmintics
Definition
a medication capable of causing the evacuation of parasitic intestinal worms
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Antiprotozoals
Definition
agent tending to destroy of inhibit the growth of protozoans
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Arachnid
Definition
joint-legged invertebrate animals, all have eight legs
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Ascarids
Definition
nematode known as a small intestinal round worm
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Commensalism
Definition

symbiotic relationship in which one member of the association benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed

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Common name
Definition
different names for one parasite, popular name for that living organism(s)
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Definitive Host
Definition

a host that harbors the adult sexual or mature stage of the parasite

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Ectoparasite
Definition
a parasite that lives outside(exterior) of its host
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Endoparasite
Definition
a parasite that lives within the host, such as its internal organs and tissues
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Erratic Parasite
Definition
parasite that wanders to an unusal site
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Euryxenous Parasite
Definition
a parasite with a broad host range
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Facultative Parasite
Definition
a parasite that is non-parasite in nature (free living) but can become parasitic in certain hosts (usually depending upon environment)
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Free-living parasite
Definition
an organism which is capable of living in the environments & leading a nonparasitic existence
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Genus Name
Definition
a class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic
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Helminths
Definition
a parasitic worm, solid bodied and bodies in which tubes are suspended within a tube, trematodes and cestodes
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Homoxenous Parasite
Definition
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Host
Definition
an organism that harbors a parasite in which it may harm another living thing(animals)
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Incidental Parasite
Definition

a parasite found in a host that does not normally infect

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Infection
Definition
an infective agent or material contaminated with an infective agent
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Infestation
Definition
the act of infecting something, something that infects
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Insecta
Definition
a class of arthropoda comprising segmented animals that as adults have a well-defined head bearing a single pair of antennae
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Insecticides
Definition
any substance or a mixture of substances intended to prevent, destroy, repel, or mitigate insects
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Intermediate Host
Definition
a host that harbors the larval juvenile, immature or asexual stage of a parasite. It is essential to the parasite's lifecycle. The intermediate host transfers the parasite from one definitive host to another.
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Larviparous
Definition
female nematode that retains her eggs within the uterus and produces live
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Life Cycle
Definition
sequence of maturation stages of a parasite from egg to adult
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Linnaean Classification Scheme
Definition
divided into kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species
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Microfilaricide
Definition
dewormers that kills immature firarial
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Monoxenous Parasite
Definition
will only infect one host
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Mutualism
Definition
a form of symbiosis in which the association of organisms of 2 different species is to the mutual benefit of each
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Nematode
Definition
of or relating to the phylum nematoda, unsegmented, round worms
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Obligatory parasite
Definition
a parasite that must lead a parasitic life; it is not capable of being non-parasitic (free-living)
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Oviparous
Definition
a nematode producing eggs that develop and hatch outside the maternal body
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Ovoviviparous
Definition
producing eggs that develop within the maternal body and hatch within or immediately after extrusion from the parent
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Parasite
Definition
an organism that lives within, upon, or at the expense of another organism known as the host, without contributing to the survival
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Parasitiasis
Definition
the host displays clinical signs due to parasitism
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Parasitosis
Definition
infestation with or disease caused by parasites
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Parasiticides
Definition
a substance that kills parasites
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Parasitology
Definition
the science and/or biology of parasites among humans and animals
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Paratenic Host
Definition
(transport host) an non-essential host in which the parasite is arrested or encysted and does not undergo development until eaten by the definitive host
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Pathogenecity
Definition
disease-causing potential
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Periodic parasite
Definition
parasites that live parts of their life cycle in and/or off the host
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Phoresis
Definition
smaller member of the symbiotic relationship is mechanically carried about by the larger member, transmission
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Platyhelminths
Definition
flat worms, unsegmented
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Protozoan parasite
Definition
any protist of the phylum or subkingdom protozoa
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Pseudoparasite
Definition
a living organism or object that are not parasites but may be considered as parasitic
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Reservoir Host
Definition
parasite or disease in which occurs on its own and is the key to the infection
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Scientific name
Definition
genus name of an organism, latin names written in italics
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Specific epithet
Definition
the latin or latinized noun or adjective that follows the genus name in a taxonomic binomial
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Stenoxenous parasite
Definition
a parasite with a narrow host range
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Symbiosis
Definition
two different species that live together and depend on eachother
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Transport Host
Definition
intermediate host where the parasite does not undergo development but remains arrested within the host's tissues
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Trematode
Definition
parasitic flatworms and flukes, parasite that lives within the GI tract
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Vectors
Definition
infectious disease caused by pathogens that are transmitted by arthropods
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Zoonosis
Definition
a disease that is transmittable from animals to humans
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