bilharzia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The parasitic disease schistosomiasis.

Word forms

bilharzia bilharzias

Etymology

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

Related words

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