/bil'hahr zuy"euh sis/ , n. Pathol.
schistosomiasis.
Also, bilharziosis /bil hahr'zee oh"sis/ .
[ 1885-90; Bilharz ( ia ) the genus of trematode worms causing the disease (after German physician Theodor Bilharz (1825-62), who discovered the genus in 1852) + -IASIS ]