English Explanatory Dictionary

ascariasis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A disease of humans caused by the parasitic roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides in humans and by other species of Ascaris in other mammals.

Word forms

ascariasis ascariases

Etymology

From ascar- + -iasis.

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