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Hepatocystis (medicine) and isopachous (iou)


Hepatocystis (medicine)


Hepatocystis


A genus of blood-parasitizing haemosporines (family Plasmodiidae) with gametocytes in red cells and cystlike exoerythrocytic schizonts in the liver parenchyma; parasitic in Old World primates, bats, and squirrels, but not in domestic animals or in the western hemisphere. The species Hepatocystis kochi, a common parasite of African baboons and Other monkeys, is transmitted by the biting midge, Culicoides.

Origin: hepato-+ G. Kystis, bladder


isopachous (iou)



isopachous adjective. E20.
[formed as ISOPACH + -OUS.]
Geology. Depicting or pertaining to isopachytes; of the Nature of an isopachyte.