Mosquito Control Category 7F Michigan
glossary of terms Questions and Answers
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Adulticide [ Ans: ] Method or product of controlling adult
stage of mosquito.
Aesthesia [ Ans: ] Sensibility
Ague [ Ans: ] Malarial fever or any other severe, recurrent
symptom of malarial origin.
Amplification [ Ans: ] When susceptible wild birds bitten
by infected mosquitoes in turn become infected.
Amplifying host [ Ans: ] Infected birds/animals in the one-
to three- day period when a virus is present in their blood
during which noninfected mosquitoes can obtain the virus
by feeding on the bird or animals blood.
Anorexia [ Ans: ] Loss of appetite for food.
Anterior [ Ans: ] At or toward the front
Anteroventrally [ Ans: ] In the front and underneath or on
the lower side.
Antibody [ Ans: ] Any substance formed in the blood that
reacts with a specific antigen or inactivates or destroys
toxin.
, Aphasia [ Ans: ] Loss of power of expression by speech,
writing or signs, or of comprehending spoken or written
language because of injury or disease of the brain centers.
Apically [ Ans: ] Pertaining to or located at the apex.
Arboviral [ Ans: ] Pertaining to a group of viruses
including the causative agents of yellow fever, virus
encephalitides and certain febrile infections such as
dengue, which are transmitted to humans by various
arthropods including mosquitoes and ticks. Those
transmitted by ticks are often considered in a separate
category (tick-borne viruses).
Arthropod vector [ Ans: ] A member of the phylum
Arthropoda - which includes the Crustacea, Myriopoda,
Insecta and Arachnoidea - which carries pathogenic
organisms.
Aseptic meningitis [ Ans: ] Inflammation of the brain or
spinal cord in which pathogenic organisms are absent.
Cephalothorax [ Ans: ] The body region formed by fusion
of head and thorax in Arachnida and Crustacea.
Cerebrospinal fluid [ Ans: ] Fluid of the brain and spinal
cord.
Dessication [ Ans: ] The act of drying up
glossary of terms Questions and Answers
(100% Correct Answers) Already Graded A+
Adulticide [ Ans: ] Method or product of controlling adult
stage of mosquito.
Aesthesia [ Ans: ] Sensibility
Ague [ Ans: ] Malarial fever or any other severe, recurrent
symptom of malarial origin.
Amplification [ Ans: ] When susceptible wild birds bitten
by infected mosquitoes in turn become infected.
Amplifying host [ Ans: ] Infected birds/animals in the one-
to three- day period when a virus is present in their blood
during which noninfected mosquitoes can obtain the virus
by feeding on the bird or animals blood.
Anorexia [ Ans: ] Loss of appetite for food.
Anterior [ Ans: ] At or toward the front
Anteroventrally [ Ans: ] In the front and underneath or on
the lower side.
Antibody [ Ans: ] Any substance formed in the blood that
reacts with a specific antigen or inactivates or destroys
toxin.
, Aphasia [ Ans: ] Loss of power of expression by speech,
writing or signs, or of comprehending spoken or written
language because of injury or disease of the brain centers.
Apically [ Ans: ] Pertaining to or located at the apex.
Arboviral [ Ans: ] Pertaining to a group of viruses
including the causative agents of yellow fever, virus
encephalitides and certain febrile infections such as
dengue, which are transmitted to humans by various
arthropods including mosquitoes and ticks. Those
transmitted by ticks are often considered in a separate
category (tick-borne viruses).
Arthropod vector [ Ans: ] A member of the phylum
Arthropoda - which includes the Crustacea, Myriopoda,
Insecta and Arachnoidea - which carries pathogenic
organisms.
Aseptic meningitis [ Ans: ] Inflammation of the brain or
spinal cord in which pathogenic organisms are absent.
Cephalothorax [ Ans: ] The body region formed by fusion
of head and thorax in Arachnida and Crustacea.
Cerebrospinal fluid [ Ans: ] Fluid of the brain and spinal
cord.
Dessication [ Ans: ] The act of drying up
