Definition of Guinea worm

1. Noun. 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.

Exact synonyms: Dracunculiasis, Guinea Worm Disease
Generic synonyms: Infestation

2. Noun. Parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates.
Exact synonyms: Dracunculus Medinensis
Generic synonyms: Nematode, Nematode Worm, Roundworm
Group relationships: Dracunculus, Genus Dracunculus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Guinea Worm

Guienne
Guildford
Guilin
Guillain-Barre reflex
Guillain-Barre syndrome
Guillain-Barré syndrome
Guillaume Apollinaire
Guine-Bissau
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau monetary unit
Guinea-Bissau peso
Guinea corn
Guinea grains
Guinea pepper
Guinea worm (current term)
Guinea worm disease
Guinean
Guinean franc
Guinean monetary unit
Guineans
Guinevere
Guinness
Guinnesses
Guiseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi
Guiseppe Guarneri
Guiyang
Guizhou
Gujarat
Gujarati

Literary usage of Guinea worm

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Tropical diseases: A Manual of the Diseases of Warm Climates by Patrick Manson (1906)
"Guinea-worm is not equally diffused throughout this extensive area ; it tends ... Although guinea-worm is sometimes seen in Europe, this is only in natives ..."

2. Introduction to Infectious and Parasitic Diseases: Including Their Cause and by Millard Langfeld (1907)
"FILARIA Or guinea-worm, is a round worm which MEDINENSIS develops in the subcutaneous tissues. (Dracunculus Only the female is known. ..."

3. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1806)
"180G. Mr Eton's Cafes of Guinea worm. IV. Cafes of Guinea worm, ... I never had an opportunity of feeing a fingle cafe of Guinea worm, until it broke out in ..."

4. The Influence of Tropical Climates on European Constitutions: To which is by James Johnson (1827)
"TH B dracunculus or Guinea-worm deserves to be better known, for it gives rise to very important and very distressing effects in tropical climates. ..."

5. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1896)
"This new treatment of guinea-worm ought to have an extensive trial. On the West Coast of Africa the parasite amounts to a serious pest. ..."

6. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1863)
"Cases of the Guinea worm under the conjunctiva are on record. SECTION II.—DISEASES OF THE SEMILUNAR FOLD AND ..."

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