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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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Example Sentences

Froome's blossoming had long been hampered by outbreaks of bilharziasis, a parasitic disease which affected him again earlier in the season.

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