SCHISTOSOMIASIS


Meaning of SCHISTOSOMIASIS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌshis-tə-sō-ˈmī-ə-səs ]

noun

( plural schis·to·so·mi·a·ses -ˌsēz)

Etymology: New Latin, from Schistosoma

Date: 1906

: infestation with or disease caused by schistosomes ; specifically : a severe endemic disease of humans in Africa and parts of Asia and South America that is contracted when cercariae released into freshwaters (as rivers) by a snail intermediate host penetrate the skin and that is marked especially by blood loss and tissue damage — called also snail fever

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