Guinea-worm Synonyms

A painful and debilitating infestation contracted by drinking stagnant water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae that can mature inside a human's abdomen until the worm emerges through a painful blister in the person's skin
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. guinea worm disease
  2. dracunculiasis
Parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Dracunculus medinensis

Guinea-worm Sentence Examples

  • Many cisterns are infested with Guinea worm (filaria medinensis, Gm.).

  • Filaria medinensis - the Guinea worm - is parasitic in the subcutaneous connective tissue of man (occasionally also in the horse).

  • Playfairii, when shaken with water forms a slight but permanent lather, and on this account is used by the Somali women for cleansing their hair, and by the men to whiten their shields; it is known as meena h¢rma in Bombay, and was formerly used there for the expulsion of the guinea-worm.