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bilharziasis

[ bil-hahr-zahy-uh-sis ]

noun

, Pathology.


bilharziasis

/ ˌbɪlhɑːˈtsaɪəsɪs; bɪlˌhɑːtsɪˈəʊsɪs /

noun

  1. another name for schistosomiasis


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bilharziasis1

1885–90; < New Latin Bilharz ( ia ) the genus of trematode worms causing the disease (after German physician Theodor Bilharz (1825–62), who discovered the genus in 1852) + -iasis

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