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vacuole

Biology; Parasitology

A space or cavity in the cytoplasm of a protozoan usually functioning in collecting and digesting food taken into the organism and eliminating wastes (see Contractile vacuole) ...

vitellaria

Biology; Parasitology

The glands in Platyhelminthes that produce yoke material and (probably) the shell of the egg.

vitelline glands

Biology; Parasitology

The glands in Platyhelminthes that produce yoke material and (probably) the shell of the egg.

vitelline membrane

Biology; Parasitology

The innermost layer in the shell of fertilized eggs of helminths.

volutin granules

Biology; Parasitology

Bodies in the peripheral cytoplasm of Blastocystis that stain darkly.

xenodiagnosis

Biology; Parasitology

A technique of diagnosis in which laboratory-reared (uninfected) arthropod hosts are fed on a suspected patient and subsequently examined in an effort to recover the parasite.

zoonosis

Biology; Parasitology

Infection in man with a parasite that typically infects animals.

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