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Filaria   Listen
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Filaria  n.  (Zool.) A former genus comprised of certain nematodes, now classed as belonging to several genera within the family Onchocercidae. See Onchocerca and Guinea worm.





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"Filaria" Quotes from Famous Books



... a good stiff epidemic of the yaws about; lots of cases of dum with the various symptoms; ulcers of course galore; a man with a bit of a broken spear head in an abscess in the thigh; one which I believe a professional enthusiast would call a "lovely case" of filaria, the entire white of one eye being full of the active little worms and a ridge of surplus population migrating across the bridge of the nose into the other eye, under the skin, looking like the bridge of a pair of spectacles. ...
— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley


Words linked to "Filaria" :   Erodium cicutarium, Filariidae, clocks, pin grass, storksbill, alfilaria, filaree, family Filariidae, filarial, nematode, roundworm, heron's bill, alfileria, pin clover


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