Guinea-worm

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Noun
  1. 1
    A long, white parasitic worm, of species Dracunculus medinensis, which can live in human skin.

    "the rishta-doctors patiently removing guinea-worms, making an incision, trapping the three-foot-long creature's head in a cleft at the end of a stick, and then slowly winding it out of the incision"

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dragon worm

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"the rishta-doctors patiently removing guinea-worms, making an incision, trapping the three-foot-long creature's head in a cleft at the end of a stick, and then slowly winding it out of the incision"

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