toxoplasman.
/tɒksəʊˈplazmə/ Zoology.
A micro-organism of the genus of this name, which comprises crescentic uninucleate sporozoans that are parasites of vertebrates. Also in plural sense.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Sporozoa > subclass Toxoplasmea > [noun] > member of genus Toxoplasma
toxoplasma1926
1926 C. M. Wenyon Protozool. II. ii. 1042 Mayer..discovered a parasite which appeared to be a toxoplasma in the spleen and liver of a bird.
1926 C. M. Wenyon Protozool. II. ii. 1042 Though some of the toxoplasmata may be merozoites of hæmogregarines or coccidia, this cannot apply to such an organism as Toxoplasma gondii.
1937 Science 2 Apr. 336/1 Toxoplasma have been described as the causative agents of various pathologic conditions in birds and mammals, including man.
1962 Lancet 6 Jan. 23/2 Only when a woman is initially infected with toxoplasma during pregnancy can she pass the infection to her fœtus.
1973 Times 31 Oct. 14/3 It is thought that toxoplasma infection may occasionally lead to abortion, or to some cases of mental abnormality in the child.
Derivatives
toxoˈplasmic adj.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > protozoa > class Sporozoa > subclass Toxoplasmea > [adjective] > of or relating to Toxoplasmata
toxoplasmic1937
1937 Science 2 Apr. 337/2 It is not known how toxoplasmic infection is transmitted in nature.
1971 Physics Bull. July 409/2 Recurrent toxoplasmic chorioretinitis, leading to satellite lesions about a scar caused by cysts, presents a serious ocular threat.
toxoˈplasmin n. [-in suffix1] an antigenic preparation of toxoplasma.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > [noun] > drugs used as testing agents
tuberculin1891
lepromin1929
penatin1942
sulphobromophthalein1945
toxoplasmin1948
Metopirone1960
metyrapone1962
leprolin1971
1948 J. K. Frenkel in Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. & Med. 68 639/2 The preparation of toxoplasmin, a skin testing antigen made of toxoplasma has been described.
1962 Lancet 6 Jan. 23/2 At the end of the third month of pregnancy, all women should be tested by the toxoplasmin skin test, which is cheap and simple.
ˌtoxoplasˈmosis n. [-osis suffix] infection with or a disease caused by toxoplasma, which may vary from symptomless to fatal.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > parasitic disorders > [noun] > other parasites
dracontiasis1885
opisthorchiasis1907
leishmaniosis1911
onchocerciasis1911
leishmaniasis1912
dracunculosis1914
lambliasis1916
giardiasis1919
acarine1924
toxoplasmosis1934
dracunculiasis1942
anisakiasis1962
cryptosporidiosis1971
1934 Biol. Abstr. 8 972/2 This is the first observation of incidence of toxoplasmosis in canary birds in Argentina.
1977 Rolling Stone 24 Mar. 24/5 Roy Harper, popular British singer and guitarist, almost had to delay a tour of Britain when he caught a rare (in humans), flulike virus called toxoplasmosis while giving mouth to mouth resuscitation to a pregnant sheep.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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