river blindness

American  

noun

Pathology.

1. onchocerciasis.

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river blindness British  

noun

1. another name for onchocerciasis

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Etymology

Origin of river blindness

First recorded in 1950–55

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river blindness

In 1987, Merck’s life-changing pill for river blindness had no market.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

In addition to herbal supplements, however, some cleanses include ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug used to treat river blindness and elephantitis, which leads to the painful enlargement of body parts.

From Salon ● May 18, 2025

But Jimmy and Roslaynn Carter were first exposed to river blindness growing up surrounded by the crushing poverty of the rural Deep South during the Great Depression.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 30, 2023

Several serious, neglected tropical diseases in humans are caused by roundworms, including river blindness, lymphatic elephantiasis and ascariasis.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 18, 2023

Yet another, known as river blindness, occurs when the larvae of parasitic worms, transmitted by the bite of blackflies, migrate into the eye and cause blindness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2017