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vivax Med.|ˈvaɪvæks|
[L., = ‘long-lived’.]
The specific name of a protozoon of the genus Plasmodium, used absol. and attrib. to denote the organism and attrib. with reference to the relapsing type of malaria it causes, in which paroxysms occur every third day and which is usually not fatal. Freq. printed in italic.
1930[see falciparum]. 1946Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 20 July 964/1 The patients were military personnel who had acquired vivax infections in the Pacific or Mediterranean theaters of operation. 1955Sci. News Let. 23 July 52/1 The Negro seems to have a general resistance to strains of vivax from all areas. 1958N. F. Leopold Life plus 99 Years xxi. 321 Vivax malaria is also known as tertian malaria because, once the trophozoites have fallen into step and got synchronized, they sporulate every forty-eight hours. 1983Oxf. Textbk. Med. I. v. 394/2 The vivax resistance factor [in many black Africans] is a blood group determinant. |