7F Michigan Glossary Of Terms Mosquito Control
Category – Questions And Answers
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
Diapause ✔️Ans - A period of biological dormancy; an interval in which
development is arrested or greatly slowed.
Distal ✔️Ans - Farthest from the center or the point of attachment or
origin.
Edema ✔️Ans - An accumulation of an excessive amount of fluid in cells;
tissues or serous cavities.
Encephalomyelitis ✔️Ans - An acute inflammation of both brain and
spinal cord.
Endemic ✔️Ans - Present in a human community at all times but
occurring in only small numbers of cases.
Entomology ✔️Ans - The study of insects
Enzootic ✔️Ans - Present in an animal community at all times but
occuring in only small numbers of cases.
Epizootic ✔️Ans - Pertaining to a disease that attacks many animals in
any region at the same time.
Category – Questions And Answers
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
Diapause ✔️Ans - A period of biological dormancy; an interval in which
development is arrested or greatly slowed.
Distal ✔️Ans - Farthest from the center or the point of attachment or
origin.
Edema ✔️Ans - An accumulation of an excessive amount of fluid in cells;
tissues or serous cavities.
Encephalomyelitis ✔️Ans - An acute inflammation of both brain and
spinal cord.
Endemic ✔️Ans - Present in a human community at all times but
occurring in only small numbers of cases.
Entomology ✔️Ans - The study of insects
Enzootic ✔️Ans - Present in an animal community at all times but
occuring in only small numbers of cases.
Epizootic ✔️Ans - Pertaining to a disease that attacks many animals in
any region at the same time.
