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Definition of Myiasis
1. Noun. Infestation of the body by the larvae of flies (usually through a wound or other opening) or any disease resulting from such infestation.
Definition of Myiasis
1. Noun. (medicine) The infestation of a living vertebrate by maggots. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Myiasis
1. infestation of human tissue by fly maggots [n MYIASES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Myiasis
Literary usage of Myiasis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1909)
"Gastro-intestinal myiasis may result from the swallowing of the larvae of the
... The most common form of cutaneous myiasis is that in which an- external ..."
2. Medical and Veterinary Entomology: A Textbook for Use in Schools and by William Brodbeck Herms (1915)
"myiasis is a term referring to the presence of and resultant disturbances ...
The responsible insects may relate to myiasis in a more or less accidental ..."
3. A Practical treatise on diseases of the skin for the use of students and by Oliver Samuel Ormsby (1921)
"myiasis CUTANEA.1 Joseph divides all cases of infection by larva; of flies into (1)
myiasis ... Mook, Archives of Derm, and Syph., 1920, i, p. 515; myiasis ..."
4. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"Coates, GM, " A Case of myiasis Aurium accompanying the Radical Mastoid ...
severe myiasis in Russia, due to a fly variously recorded as Sarcophaga ..."
5. Animal Parasites and Human Disease by Asa Crawford Chandler (1922)
"Such an infestation by fly maggots is commonly known as myiasis, intestinal
myiasis being the presence of fly larvae in the intestine, cutaneous myiasis in ..."
6. Diseases of the Skin by Richard Lightburn Sutton (1919)
"myiasis CUTANEA. In tropical and subtropical countries, and occasionally in the
temperate zones, the skin is invaded by the larvae of certain flies, ..."
7. Sanitary entomology: The Entomology of Disease, Hygiene and Sanitation by William Dwight Pierce (1921)
"INTESTINAL AND UROGENITAL myiasis There is every reason to believe that myiasis
... The types of myiasis included in this group should not be confused with ..."
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