TOXOPLASMA GONDII103. AGETS O OODBORE ILLESS. Toxoplasma gondii. Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite that causes the disease toxoplasmosis. It is a very common parasitic. infection in humans and other warm-blooded animals, with approximately a third of the worldâs human population. estimated to have been exposed to the parasite.
A cornice (from the Italian cornice meaning ledge) is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns a building or furniture elementâ the cornice over a door or window, for instance, or the cornice around the top edge of a pedestal or along the top of an interior wall.
noun, Architecture. 1. a slablike member beneath the base of a column or pier. 2. a square base or a lower block, as of a pedestal. 3. Also called plinth course. a projecting course of stones at the base of a wall; earth table. 4. (in joinery) a flat member at the bottom of an architrave, dado, baseboard, or the like.