strongylosis

[stron-juh-loh-sis]

noun Veterinary Pathology.

a disease, especially of horses, caused by an infestation by strongyles and characterized in serious cases by weakness and anemia.

Origin of strongylosis

1910–15; < New Latin, equivalent to Strongyl(us) strongyle + -ōsis -osis

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