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Definition: Blood Meal |
Blood MealNoun1. The dried and powdered blood of animals. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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 | A blocked flea, i.e. dark spots in stomach, is unable to ingest its blood meal because of a mass of bacteria within the proventriculus, preventing passage of food from the esophagus to the stomach. Credit: CDC. |  | Slide shows unblocked anterior portion of the digestive track of X. cheopis. A blocked flea is unable to ingest its blood meal because a mass of bacteria is preventing passage of blood from the esophagus to the stomach. Credit: CDC. |
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Health | Vertebrate infection occurs when the infected arthropod takes a blood meal. The term 'arbovirus' has no taxonomic significance. (references) | |
The mosquito takes a blood meal to nourish her eggs. At the same time, she injects saliva that contains the infectious form of the parasite, the sporozoite, into a person’s bloodstream. (references) | ||
The gametocytes, male (microgametocytes) and female (macrogametocytes), are ingested by an Anopheles mosquito during a blood meal . The parasites’ multiplication in the mosquito is known as the sporogonic cycle . While in the mosquito's stomach, the microgametes penetrate the macrogametes generating zygotes . The zygotes in turn become motile and elongated (ookinetes) which invade the midgut wall of the mosquito where they develop into oocysts . The oocysts grow, rupture, and release sporozoites , which make their way to the mosquito's salivary glands. (references) | ||
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blood meal | 33 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-l-l-m-o-o" | |
-1 letter: moldable. | |
-2 letters: bloomed. | |
-3 letters: abloom, albedo, ambled, balled, bedlam, beldam, blamed, bolled, boodle, boomed, doable, lambed, loamed, loomed, malled, mobled. | |
-4 letters: abode, adobe, adobo, aldol, allod, amble, amole, baled, blade, blame, blood, bloom, booed, demob, dobla, dolma, domal, label, ladle, lamed, lobed, looed, medal, modal, model, molal, mooed, moola, obole. | |
-5 letters: abed, able, alme, aloe. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 6C 6F 6F 64 4D 65 61 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101100 01101111 01101111 01100100 00100000 01001101 01100101 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B l o o d   M e a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 006C 006F 006F 0064 004D 0065 0061 006C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3678818170247716778 |
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