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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any of various infectious diseases comprising and developing from infestation with any of various parasitic worms.
2. 2
   infestation of the body with parasitic worms wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

helminthosis

Etymology

From helminth (“parasitic flatworm or roundworm”) + -iasis.

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