Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various slender, threadlike nematode worms of the superfamily Filarioidea that are parasitic in vertebrates and are often transmitted as larvae by mosquitoes and other biting insects. The adult form lives in the blood and lymphatic tissues, causing inflammation and obstruction that can lead to elephantiasis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of the family Filariidæ, containing parasitic nematode worms of very slender filiform shape, some attaining a length of several feet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) a small, slender nematode worm of the family
Onchocercidae (Filariidae ) of many species, parasitic when adult in various animals, including man. They may live within the blood, or in other bodily fluids, or within tissues or cavities of the body. Infection with such organisms may be transmitted by blood-sucking arthropods. - noun (Zoöl.) a former genus comprised of certain nematodes, now classed as belonging to several genera within the family
Onchocercidae . Seeonchocerca andguinea worm .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
parasitic nematode worm that lives in the blood ofvertebrates and is transmitted byinsects : the cause offilariasis .
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- noun European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage
- noun slender threadlike roundworms living in the blood and tissues of vertebrates; transmitted as larvae by biting insects
Etymologies
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Examples
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D. filaria, the large lungworm of sheep and goats, may occasionally be present and be a cause of a clinical pneumonia.
Chapter 2 1999
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Note: where Loiasis is endemic (West Africa), all treatment with diethylcarbamazine, should commence with 3 mg/kg x 2 days (protocole for Loiasis) whatever form of filaria is being treated.
Chapter 11 1993
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For example, filaria is widespread in the project area, including both river blindness and loa-loa.
Chapter 7 1991
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Manson was moreover guided by his experience regarding another parasite of the blood, a little worm, filaria, the transference of which from one part of its life-cycle to another he had found effected by the mosquito, and more particularly by special species of the mosquito.
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Soon after this, in 1879, the first conclusive proof of the direct transmission of a disease from man-to-man was presented by the father of tropical medicine, Sir Patrick Manson, with regard to filaria, a blood infection that often causes the repulsive condition known as elephantiasis and which the mosquito takes from man and after a short time gives over to another subject.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous
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The _S. filaria_ is thread-like and the _S. refuscens_ hair-like in appearance.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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These are the larval forms of the parasite and have been called by Le Dantec the micro-filaria.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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-- The two lung worms of sheep are the _Strongylus filaria_ and Strongylus_ rufescens_.
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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_Culex microannulatus_ regarded as the carrier of the filaria.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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Manson's theory in regard to the disease being caused by filaria.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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