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Definition of Guinea worm disease
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.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Guinea Worm Disease
Literary usage of Guinea worm disease
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tropical Medicine: With Special Reference to the West Indies, Central by Thomas Wright Jackson (1907)
"Guinea worm disease is a condition of human infection with the guinea worm, ...
Guinea worm disease occurs in Arabia, Persia, Hindustan, and Africa, ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"... (Guinea-worm Disease) Organism.—This is an infection by Filaria medinensis.
The parasite is found in the leg near the ankle. It docs not remain here, ..."
3. Epitome of Skin Diseases: With Formulae, for Students and Practitioners by Tilbury Fox (1879)
"Guinea-worm Disease—This is very common in tropical climates. Usually what happens
is this : the worm (Filaria medinensis), when quite small, bores its way ..."
4. A Text-book of the Practice of Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1907)
"... such precautions might be advisable for sporadic cases in countries wherein
filariasis is only occasionally introduced. Guinea-worm Disease ..."
5. Handbook of the Diagnosis and Treatment of Skin Diseases by Arthur Van Harlingen (1895)
"Guinea worm disease.—(See Filaria medinensis?) Graying of the Hair.—(See Canities?)
Grocers' Itch.—Eczema of the hands and arms, due to the irritation ..."
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