Etymologia: Falciparum

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Tiwari, Aparna ; Sinha, Abhinav
• Description:
  From the Latin falx or falci (sickle or scythe- shaped) and parum (like or equal to another) or parere (to bring forth or bear). The species fal- ciparum in the genus Plasmodium is the parasite that causes malignant tertian malaria in humans. ; There were many terms suggested for this parasite, such as Ematozoo falciforme by Antolisei and Angelini in 1890 and Haemotozoon falci- forme by Thayer and Hewetson in 1895, because of its sickle-shaped gametocytes, the sexual stage of falciparum parasites. However, the term falci- parum, suggested by William Henry Welch in 1897, was eventually accepted. In 1954, Plasmodium falciparum (previously Laverania malariae) was approved by International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.
• Subjects:
  • Etymologia
  • Plasmodium falciparum
  • Malaria, Falciparum
  • Terminology as Topic
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 27(2):470
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC7853582
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Genre:
  Etymologia
• Volume:
  27
• Issue:
  2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/102492/cdc_102492_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 428.56 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:e002439071db0033d377755d6d6c2bd1ad767aef3c5ea9771c66ffcca890418f