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Definition of Ankylostomiasis
1. n. A disease due to the presence of the parasites Agchylostoma duodenale, Uncinaria (subgenus Necator) americana, or allied nematodes, in the small intestine. When present in large numbers they produce a severe anæmia by sucking the blood from the intestinal walls. Called also miner's anæmia, tunnel disease, brickmaker's anæmia, Egyptian chlorosis.
Definition of Ankylostomiasis
1. Noun. (alternative form of ancylostomiasis) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ankylostomiasis
1. [n -MIASES]
Medical Definition of Ankylostomiasis
1. Infection of humans or animals with hookworms of the genus ancylostoma. Characteristics include anaemia, dyspepsia, eosinophilia, and abdominal swelling. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ankylostomiasis
Literary usage of Ankylostomiasis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"... Tunnel Disease) ankylostomiasis is a form of progressive and grave anemia with
symptoms referable to the gastro-intestinal tract and nervous system due ..."
2. Clinical Hematology: A Practical Guide to the Examination of the Blood with by John C. DaCosta (1901)
"The anemia of ankylostomiasis, while it may reach a very high grade of development,
still does not counterfeit pernicious anemia. ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"... (ankylostomiasis). A FURTHER REPORT OF A CASE, WITH NOTES UPON THE AUTOPSY.1 BY
THOMAS A. ... ankylostomiasis ..."
4. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler, Thomas McCrae (1912)
"There are no medicines which have any influence upon the embryos in theii migration
through the muscles. 3. ankylostomiasis (Hookworm Disease) Synonyms. ..."
5. A German-English dictionary of terms used in medicine and the allied sciences by Hugo Lang, Bertram Abrahams (1905)
"(i) mountain ankylostomiasis illness due to diminished atmospheric pressure at
great altitudes ; (2) ankylostomiasis in ..."
6. Tropical Medicine: With Special Reference to the West Indies, Central by Thomas Wright Jackson (1907)
"ankylostomiasis is a condition of anemia dependent upon, and caused by, the
presence in the human intestine of a peculiar ..."
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