What's the difference between dracunculus and dragonet?
Dracunculus
Definition:
(n.) A fish; the dragonet.
(n.) The Guinea worm (Filaria medinensis).
Example Sentences:
(1) This disease is contracted only by persons who drink water contaminated by tiny copepods containing larval stages of the parasite Dracunculus medinensis.
(2) A sterile abcess of the forearm caused by Dracunculus medinensis is described.
(3) The posterior end of 1 worm was recovered and appeared to be a female Dracunculus medinensis.
(4) Filtering of drinking water to remove the copepod intermediate hosts of Dracunculus medinensis is a primary strategy for control of guinea-worm disease.
(5) Dracunculus medinensis was recovered from a 42-year-old man residing in Shizuoka, Japan.
(6) Etiologic diagnoses included canine distemper (n = 125), congenital absence of guard hairs (n = 7), traumatic injuries (n = 7), rabies (n = 3), suspected toxicoses (n = 3), verminous pneumonia due to Paragonimus kellicotti (n = 1), bacterial septicemia secondary to Dracunculus insignis (n = 1), and tick paralysis (n = 1).
(7) Twenty-three species of helminths were collected including 10 species of Trematoda (Brachylaima virginiana, Euryhelmis squamula, Eurytrema procyonis, Fibricola cratera, Gyrosoma singulare, Maritreminoides nettae, Mesostephanus appendiculatoides, Metagonimoides oregonensis, Paragonimus kellicotti, Pharyngostomoides procyonis), 2 species of Cestoda (Atriotaenia procyonis, Mesocestoides variabilis), 10 species of Nematoda (Arthrocephalus lotoris, Baylisascaris procyonis, Capillaria putorii, C. plica, Crenosoma goblei, Dracunculus insignis, Gnathostoma procyonis, Molineus barbatus, Physaloptera rara, Trichinella spiralis), and 1 species of Acanthocephala (Macracanthorhynchus ingens).
(8) The clinical features of dracunculus orchitis as a definite clinical entity are summarized and a case reported.
(9) Dracunculus medinensis, is one of the primary intervention strategies for preventing dracunculiasis.
(10) Immunoelectroblotting and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay were used to identify non-cross-reacting antigenic components of Dracunculus medinensis and the filarial worms Onchocerca volvulus, Loa loa, Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, and Mansonella ozzardi.
(11) The prevalence of guinea worm Dracunculus medinensis was determined in communities in Anambra State, Eastern Nigeria during the 1984-1985 guinea worm season.
(12) Dracunculus medinensis and D. insignis are morphologically indistinguishable.
(13) The International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade (1981-1990) has stimulated a movement to eradicate human infection with the helminthic parasite Dracunculus medinensis (dracunculiasis), whose victims are disabled for weeks or months during the painful emergence of one or more worms from beneath the skin.
(14) From 106 ferrets experimentally infected with Dracunculus insignis, 273 female worms and 42 male worms were recovered.
(15) Painful, fluctuant subcutaneous swellings on the limbs of a dog were attributed to infection with Dracunculus insignis.
(16) ; "chuchupate" with Ligusticum porteri and Myroxylon balsamum; "hierba anís" with Tagetes lucida, T. filifolia, T. micrantha, Artemisia dracunculus, Pimpinella anisum, and Illicium verum; and "matarique" with Psacalium decompositum, P. peltatum, P. sinuatum, P.
(17) Genital involvement of Dracunculus medinensis is uncommon, and when it does occur, it usually involves the scrotum.
(18) The role of eight different species of cyclops as intermediate hosts of Dracunculus medinensis has been studied by investigating their relative preferences for the ingestion of free-living larvae, the time required for larval penetration into the haemocoel, the number of larvae lethal to the copepods, and the threshold of tolerance for successful development of the larvae within the cyclops.
(19) This source of drinking water provided the classical ecological environment for the transmission of Dracunculus medinensis, other helminth parasites and bacterial enteric infections.
(20) The crowds of these major species during the period of dracunculosis high transmission in the surveyed area (June to July), suggest, in the absence of a search for Dracunculus medinensis larvae, that, they should play the principal part as vector of the parasite in this area.
Dragonet
Definition:
(n.) A little dragon.
(n.) A small British marine fish (Callionymuslyra); -- called also yellow sculpin, fox, and gowdie.
Example Sentences:
(1) Peroxidase-anti-peroxidase immunocytochemistry, applied on serial semithin epoxy resin sections, was used to examine the localization of endogenous GABA in horizontal cells in the retina of a marine teleost, the dragonet (Callionymus lyra L.).
(2) The localisation of endogenous glutamate in the dragonet retina was investigated by light microscopic postembedding silver-enhanced immunogold labeling after incubation with an anti-glutamate antiserum.
(3) These results clearly show that the oocyte of the dragonet possesses a daily maturation rhythm.
(4) 2) Mercury contents in the cardinal fish, Apogon notatus, were significantly higher than those in either the dragonet, Callionymus lunatus, or the sillaginoid, Sillago japonica.
(5) The effectiveness of steroids and gonadotropins (GtHs) in inducing final oocyte maturation was examined at different times of the day (0100, 0500, 0700, 0900, 1100, 1300, 1700, 2100 hr) in a daily spawning marine teleost, the tobinumeri-dragonet, Repomucenus beniteguri.
(6) Oblique 1 microns-sections through the dorsal inner plexiform layer of the light-adapted dragonet retina were processed for postembedding, silver-enhanced immunogold labeling after incubation with a glutamate-specific antiserum.