Introduction to Medical Parasitology Questions with 100% Correct Answers
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Parasitology
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Parasitology
Parasitology - Area of biology concerned with the phenomenon of dependence of one living organism on another.
Medical Parasitology - Concerned with parasites that affect humans and their medical significance, as well as their importance in human communities.
Tropical medicine - Branch of m...
Introduction to Medical Parasitology
Questions with 100% Correct Answers
Parasitology - ✅✅ Area of biology concerned with the phenomenon of
dependence of one living organism on another.
Medical Parasitology - ✅✅ Concerned with parasites that affect humans and their
medical significance, as well as their importance in human communities.
Tropical medicine - ✅✅ Branch of medicine that deals with tropical diseases and
other special medical problems of tropical regions.
Tropical disease - ✅✅ Is an illness, that is indigenous to or endemic in a tropical
area but may also occur in sporadic or epidemic proportions in areas that are not
tropical.
Symbiosis - ✅✅ Living together of unlike organisms
Commensalism - ✅✅ Two species live together and one species benefits frpn the
relationship without harming the other
Mutualism - ✅✅ Two organisms mutually benefit from each other
Parasitism - ✅✅ One organism, the parasite, lives in or on another, depending on
the latter, for its survival and usually at the expense of the host.
Endoparasites - ✅✅ Parasite living inside the body of the host
Ectoparasites - ✅✅ Parasite living outside the body of a host
Infection - ✅✅ Presence of an endoparasite in a host
Infestation - ✅✅ Presence of an ectoparasite on a host
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