Medical Definition of Bilharziosis

1. Disease (bilharzia) caused by digenetic trematode worms of the genus Schistosoma, the adults of which live in the urinary or mesenteric blood vessels. Eggs shed by the female worms pass to the outside in the urine or faeces, but many also lodge in and obstruct the blood flow in the liver. Eosinophils seem to be particularly important in the killing of the invasive larval stage (schistosomulum). Evasion of the host's immune response by adult schistosomes seems to involve the acquisition of a coat of host cell surface material by the parasite. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bilharziosis

bilgewater
bilgewaters
bilgier
bilgiest
bilging
bilgy
bilharzia
bilharzial
bilharzial appendicitis
bilharzial dysentery
bilharzial granuloma
bilharzias
bilharziases
bilharziasis
bilharzioma
bilharziosis (current term)
bili-
bilian
bilians
biliaries
biliary
biliary atresia
biliary calculus
biliary canaliculus
biliary cirrhosis
biliary colic
biliary duct
biliary ductule
biliary ductules
biliary dyskinesia

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