filariasis
/fil-uh-rahy-uh-sis/US // ˌfɪl əˈraɪ ə sɪs //UK // (ˌfɪləˈraɪəsɪs, fɪˌlɛərɪˈeɪsɪs) //
丝虫病,丝网虫病
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : infection by filarial worms in the blood and lymph channels, lymph glands, and other tissues, the various species causing skin swellings, blindness, or elephantiasis if untreated.
Examples
It is fairly constant in trichinosis, uncinariasis, filariasis, and echinococcus disease.
He's got a new disease called filariasis, a sort of low fever that he picked up in the Cubapines or Porsslania.
It is not necessary here to describe the loathsome deformities which occur in the later stages of filariasis.
Neither does anybody doubt, that the keeping down of this mosquito would keep down filariasis.
But filariasis is terribly common, and so is Culex fatigans.
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