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Bilharzia

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The parasitic disease schistosomiasis. countable, uncountable

    "After one trip to Uganda, I tested positive for bilharzia, a type of parasitic worm infection carried by freshwater snails."

  2. 2
    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 wordnet

Etymology

After the German physician Theodor Bilharz. Originally a genus name denoting the genus now called Schistosoma.

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