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noun
Any of various diseases of humans caused by parasitic blood flukes of the genus Schistosoma.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: bilharzia, bilharziasis, bilharziosis, snail fever, Katayama fever
Antonyms: none provided
noun
an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: bilharzia, bilharziasis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: infection, infestation
History
From schistosome + -iasis. From scientific name Schistosoma + Ancient Greek -σις (-sis, nouns of action).
Across languages
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
