filarial
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Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fɪˈlɛəɹɪəl/
- Rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Adjective
filarial (not comparable)
- (medicine) Of or pertaining to the microscopic parasitic worms known as filaria, or an infestation thereof.
- 1914, Edward Rhodes Stitt, The Diagnostics and Treatment of Tropical Diseases, page 266:
- The knowledge of a filarial infection of the region of the eye seems to date from the time of Magellan.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 297:
- From a cosmetic standpoint, the filarial diseases [...] were especially unfortunate.
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 18:
- Other helminths or wormlike fellow travellers became common in the human gut, including the Enterobius (pinworm or threadworm), the yards-long tapeworm, and the filarial worms which cause elephantiasis and African river blindness.
- Straight, as if in a line.
- the filarial flight of birds
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
filarial m or f (plural filariais)
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