Songs

This plays with the way we use words to try to pin down exactly what something is, and how we might begin to describe something completely new. When scientists started to see the world through the microscope, they had to invent new words to describe exactly what they were seeing.

CHOIR
Coccidium….

ANGELA
A term applied rather loosely by Ross in his letters and memoirs for an early stage in the development of malaria parasite in the mosquito gut

CHOIR
A term applied rather loosely by Ross in his letters

ANGELA
It comes from the greek kokkos = berry and eidos = form and describes the bunch of grapes
like appearance of the mature oocyst.

CHRISTINE
Blastophore

CHOIR Blastophore……..

ANGELA
Ross’s term, referring to the parasite cells that can give rise to more parasite cells,

CHOIR
Ross’s term for the parasite cells that give rise to more parasite cells.

ANGELA
Combining the greek ‘blast’ meaning bud, with phoros, bearing or carrying…

CHRISTINE
Haematozoin

CHOIR
Haematozoin…

ANGELA
Malaria pigment produced by the digestion of blood by the parasites. Haemozoin is the correct term.

CHOIR
Malaria pigment produced by the digestion of blood by the parasites.