Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of the order Trematoidea, or fluke-worms, endoparasitic in the blood-vessels of man, especially in the urinary organs, the ova escaping through an ulceration which the presence of the parent causes.
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- noun medicine The parasitic disease
schistosomiasis
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- noun an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The new commitments aim to eradicate or reduce leprosy, lymphatic filariasis (also known as elephantiasis), blinding trachoma, sleeping sickness, Guinea worm, schistosomiasis (also called bilharzia), river blindness, soil-transmitted helminthes, Chagas disease and visceral leishmaniasis.
Agencies, Drug Makers, Gates Target 10 Diseases Jeanne Whalen 2012
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The disease they caused, known as bilharzia or schistosomiasis, drained the energy of hundreds of millions of people who were supposed to build European empires.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The disease they caused, known as bilharzia or schistosomiasis, drained the energy of hundreds of millions of people who were supposed to build European empires.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The disease they caused, known as bilharzia or schistosomiasis, drained the energy of hundreds of millions of people who were supposed to build European empires.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Schistosomiasis (also known as bilharzia) is one of the most prevalent diseases spread by the use of irrigation water, especially slowly moving water in canals, lakes, and rivers.
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Part of the reason Egypt has so many carriers of HCV, according to the WHO and Ministry of Health, is due to government campaigns between the 1950s and 1980s treating rural populations for schistosomiasis, also known as bilharzia, an endemic water-borne parasitic disease present in the Nile River.
unknown title 2009
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Schistosomiasis, also called bilharzia and once known as the disease of the pharaohs because traces have been found in mummified bodies, could be brought under control in the worst afflicted countries by an ambitious project launched from the UK.
unknown title 2009
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Schistosomiasis, also called bilharzia and once known as the disease of the pharaohs because traces have been found in mummified bodies, could be brought under control in the worst afflicted countries by an ambitious project launched from the UK.
unknown title 2009
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Schistosomiasis, also known as bilharzia, is an NTD that affects over 200 million people worldwide (Steinmann et al, 2005) and has drastic effects on the economic viability of the country in which it is endemic (Sturrock, R. F.,
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Schistosomiasis, also known as bilharzia, is an NTD that affects over 200 million people worldwide (Steinmann et al, 2005) and has drastic effects on the economic viability of the country in which it is endemic (Sturrock, R. F.,
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azd commented on the word bilharzia
schistosomiasis
February 23, 2007
bilby commented on the word bilharzia
"When it comes to malaria, filaria and bilharzia, which will spread in Ethiopia if any degree of irrigation is achieved, and are already endemic in two-thirds of Ethiopia anyway, a massive, concerted and fantastically costly programme of research is needed, but as long as only poor countries suffer from these parasitic diseases, such a programme will never be undertaken."
- 'Resetlement, Ethiopia, 1985', Germaine Greer in The Madwoman's Underclothes.
September 1, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word bilharzia
"Long ago, when Naima was ill with bilharzia, Father, at Mother's insistence, brought me to visit her."
"Naima" by Hisham Matar, in The New Yorker, January 24, 2011, p 69
February 2, 2011