See Also: malarial periodicity(medicine)
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Periodicity(medicine)
lunar periodicity(medicine)
diurnal periodicity(medicine)
filarial periodicity(medicine)
subperiodic periodicity(medicine)
nocturnal periodicity(medicine)
malarial(medicine)

malarial periodicity (medicine)


malarial periodicity


A clinical rhythmicity reflected in periodic fevers and chills recurring at approximately 48-hour intervals in tertian malaria (Plasmodium vivax or P. Ovale) or at 72-hour intervals in quartan malaria (Periodicity malariae); the rhythm of tertian or 48-hour cycles is frequently modified in malignant tertian or falciparum malaria (P. Falciparum); associated with release of merozoites from red cells during erythrocytic schizogony, although the controlling mechanism for the synchronous release is unknown.