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  • Malemission

    Failure of semen to be ejaculated from the urinary meatus during coitus.  

  • Maleficence

    Acting in a deliberately harmful manner toward others.  

  • Male factor

    Any explanation for a couple’s difficulty in conceiving a child that results from diseases of the male reproductive organs, such as a low sperm count or inadequate sperm motility.  

  • Malassimilation

    Defective, incomplete, or faulty assimilation, especially of nutritive material. Impaired absorption, typically indicating the inability to assimilate specific types of nutrients from the intestine.  

  • Malassezia pachydermatis

    A species that has been transferred from the pet dogs of health care workers to the infants in a neonatal unit.  

  • Malariacidal

    Having the property of killing malaria parasites.  

  • Vivax malaria

    Malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax. It is the most common form of malaria, marked by frequent recurrence.  

  • Triple quartan malaria

    Malaria in which three concurrent cycles result in fever occurring every day.  

  • Tertian malaria

    Malaria in which sporulation occurs each 48 hr. Symptoms are more common during the day. Paroxysms are divided into chill, fever, and sweating stages. Cold stage is usually 10 to 15 min but may last an hour or more. Febrile stage varies from 4 to 6 hr. Benign tertian malaria is caused by Plasmodium vivax,…

  • Quotidian malaria

    Malaria in which paroxysms occur with daily periodicity due to 24-hr sporulation of two groups of P. vivax. Temperature rises and falls abruptly.  

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