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单词 dracunculus medinensis
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Dracunculus medinensis


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Noun1.Dracunculus medinensis - parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebratesDracunculus medinensis - parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebratesGuinea wormnematode, nematode worm, roundworm - unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasiticDracunculus, genus Dracunculus - type genus of the family Dracunculidae
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Dracunculus medinensis


Dra·cun·cu·lus me·di·nen·'sis

a species of skin-infecting, 36" nematodes, formerly incorrectly classed as Filaria; adult worms live anywhere in the body of humans and various semiaquatic mammals; the females migrate along fascial planes to subcutaneous tissues, where troublesome chronic ulcers are formed in the skin; when the host enters water, larvae are discharged from the ulcers, from which the head of the female worm protrudes; these larvae, if ingested by Cyclops species, develop in the intermediate host to the infective stage; humans and various animals contract the infection from accidental ingestion of infected Cyclops in drinking water. Popularly known as guinea, Medina, serpent, or dragon worm, and frequently thought to be the "fiery serpent" that plagued the Israelites. [L. of Medina]

Dracunculus

(dra-kung'kyu-lus) [L. dracunculus, small dragon] A genus of parasitic nematodes of the family Dracunculidae.

Dracunculus medinensis

See: guinea wormillustration

Dracunculus medinensis


Related to Dracunculus medinensis: Enterobius vermicularis, Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichinella spiralis, Onchocerca volvulus, Loa loa, Wuchereria bancrofti
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Synonyms for Dracunculus medinensis

noun parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates

Synonyms

  • Guinea worm

Related Words

  • nematode
  • nematode worm
  • roundworm
  • Dracunculus
  • genus Dracunculus
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