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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A human skin disease caused by hookworm or roundworm larvae burrowing and creeping beneath the skin and characterized by eruptions in the form of progressing reddish lines.
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- noun parasitology a
skin disease caused by themovement of certain species ofancylostomatids under the skin
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