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Filaria n. (pl. filariae) (Zool.) A small, slender nematode worm of the family Onchocercidae (Filariidae) of many species, parasitic when adult in various animals, including man. They may live within the blood, or in other bodily fluids, or within tissues or cavities of the body. Infection with such organisms may be transmitted by blood-sucking arthropods.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... about; lots of cases of dum with the various symptoms; ulcers of course galore; a man with a bit of a broken spear head in an abscess in the thigh; one which I believe a professional enthusiast would call a "lovely case" of filaria, the entire white of one eye being full of the active little worms and a ridge of surplus population migrating across the bridge of the nose into the other eye, under the skin, looking like the bridge of a pair of spectacles. It was past eleven before I had anything ...

— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley

Words linked to "Filaria" : nematode worm, pin clover, alfileria, heron's bill, storksbill, Erodium cicutarium, pin grass, redstem storksbill, clocks, roundworm, Filariidae, alfilaria, filarial, nematode