bilharziasis

American  

[bil-hahr-zahy-uh-sis] / ˌbɪl hɑrˈzaɪ ə sɪs /

Also bilharziosis

noun

Pathology.

1. schistosomiasis.

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bilharziasis British  

/ ˌbɪlhɑːˈtsaɪəsɪs, bɪlˌhɑːtsɪˈəʊsɪs /

noun

1. another name for schistosomiasis

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Etymology

Origin of bilharziasis

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

Example Sentences

The squishy little parasites are less than an inch long, but they cause a globe-girdling disease variously known as schistosomiasis, bilharziasis, or simply snail fever.

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Schistosomiasis, bilharziasis, snail fever�by whatever name, the debilitating and often fatal illness afflicts more than 150 million people in Africa, Latin America and Asia.

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Livestock diseases like rinderpest, a fatal viral infection known as "the cattle plague," and human maladies like malaria, cholera and bilharziasis, a water-borne urinary-tract disease, are on the rise.

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The chlorine, which seemed useless, can go into making sodium pentachlorophenate�a chemical that kills the river-borne parasites causing bilharziasis, a disease chronic in Egypt for centuries.

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