Wiktionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: kaleidoscopic (Adjective). Of, relating to, or produced by a kaleidoscope. kaleidoscopic (Adjective). Brightly coloured and continuously changing in pattern, as if in a kaleidoscope.
The Duffy blood group antigen serves not only as blood group antigen, but also as a receptor for a family of proinflammatory cytokines termed chemokines, and as a receptor for Plasmodium vivax malaria parasites.ndividuals with the Duffy-negative phenotype are resistant to P. vivax invasion, and the molecular mechanism that gives rise to the phenotype Fy(a-b -) in black individuals has been associated with a point mutation - 33TC expressed in homozigosity in the FYB allele [5].
For the Chiba Lotte Marines player, see Matt Duffy (baseball, born 1989). For the rugby league footballer, see Matt Duffie. Matthew Michael Duffy (born January 15, 1991) is an American professional baseball shortstop for the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball at Long Beach State and was drafted by the San Francisco Giants in 2012.