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ankylostomiasis Path.|ˌæŋkɪləʊstəʊˈmaɪəsɪs|
Also anchylo-.
[mod.L., f. Ankylostoma (see below) + -asis.]
A disease, characterized chiefly by iron-deficiency anæmia, caused by a nematode worm (Ankylostoma duodenale, or some similar species) parasitic in the intestines; also called hook-worm disease, tunnel-disease.
1887J. D. MacDonald tr. in Papers Legislative Council Ceylon 1886 No. lvii. 19 By the term anchylostomiasis, we designate the various pathological conditions which arise from the presence of the parasite anchylostoma duodenale in the human intestines. 1889Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 Sept. 656/2 Sudden death from ankylostomiasis. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 1043 The essential symptoms of ankylostomiasis are those of a progressive anæmia associated with symptoms of intestinal catarrh. 1931J. Arthur Thomson in W. Rose Outl. Mod. Knowl. 219 Hookworm disease, or ankylostomiasis. |