myasis

[mahy-uh-sis]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Pathology, Veterinary Pathology.

plural

myases

myiasis.

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It would be banal to recall that phthiriasis is caused by lice, and that certain larvae of Diptera, such as the cestrids, may occasion the disease called myasis.