bilharzia

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Definition of bilharzia

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The parasitic disease schistosomiasis.
    “After one trip to Uganda, I tested positive for bilharzia, a type of parasitic worm infection carried by freshwater snails.”

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Etymology

After the German physician Theodor Bilharz. Originally a genus name denoting the genus now called Schistosoma.

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