Englisch - Türkisch
Definition von guinea-worm im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch
- gine kurdu
- guinea worm disease
- (Tıp, İlaç) Gine kurdu hastalığı
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Englisch - Englisch
Definition von guinea-worm im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- A long, white parasitic worm which can live in the human skin
the rishta-doctors patiently removing guinea-worms, making an incision, trapping the three-foot-long creature's head in a cleft at the end of a stick, and then slowly winding it out of the incision.
- guinea worm disease
- (Tıp, İlaç) A disease that is caused by infestation with the guinea worm and that has been eradicated in most regions except Africa ― called also dracunculiasis
- guinea worm
- parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates
- guinea worm
- A long threadlike nematode worm (Dracunculus medinensis) of tropical Asia and Africa that is a subcutaneous parasite of humans and other mammals and causes ulcerative lesions on the legs and feet. or medina worm or dragon worm Nematode (Dracunculus medinensis) that is a common parasite of humans and other mammals in tropical Asia and Africa and has been introduced into the West Indies and tropical South America. The female grows to 20-48 in. (50-120 cm) long; the male, which dies upon mating, is only about 0.5-1.1 in. (12-29 mm) long. Both sexes live in the connective tissue of the host animal. Humans become infected when they drink water containing tiny crustaceans (e.g., copepods) that have eaten guinea-worm larvae. The disease the guinea worm carries, called dracunculiasis, can be extremely debilitating and painful
- guinea worm disease
- a painful and debilitating infestation contracted by drinking stagnant water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae that can mature inside a human's abdomen until the worm emerges through a painful blister in the person's skin