Crescent

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Kres'-ent

Crescere, to grow.

. Sickle-shaped, or shaped like the new moon.
. A form of Plasmodium malaria; one of the crescentic, nonflagellate, refractive, pig- mented bodies seen in the blood of persons suffering from protracted forms of malarial poisoning; i. e., after the second week in estivoautumnal fever, in malarial remittent fever, and in the cachectic victims of chronic malaria.

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