See Also: nocturnal periodicity(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
periodicity(dictionary)
Periodicity(medicine)
malarial periodicity(medicine)
subperiodic periodicity(medicine)
filarial periodicity(medicine)
lunar periodicity(medicine)
diurnal periodicity(medicine)
nocturnal(dictionary)

nocturnal periodicity (medicine)


nocturnal periodicity


A circadian rhythm with the periodicity expressed during nighttime hours, as in the night release of microfilariae of the human filaria Wuchereria bancrofti into the peripheral blood; this type of periodicity is found in regions where the vector mosquito is a night-biting species.