| 单词 | river blindness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasriver blindness river blindness n. [so called because of its prevalence along tropical rivers, in which the flies which are the disease vectors breed] the parasitic disease onchocerciasis; blindness due to this. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > onchocerciasis onchocerciasis1911 river blindness1952 1952 Times 19 Sept. 2/5 Mr. Lyttelton..said that there was no problem in all the Colonial territories of more pressing importance than to find a cure for ‘river blindness’. 1972 Daily Tel. 22 Nov. 4/4 One French project is to eradicate ‘river blindness’, an insect-born disease which has ravaged and depopulated the valleys of the Volta rivers. 2006 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 5 Oct. 42/3 My grimmest memories are of the victims of river blindness in West Africa. < as lemmas |
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