bilharzia

Examples

• All

• What about liver flukes and things, and bilharzia?

  Fiction book (1995)

• Schistosomiasis, or bilharzia as it is sometimes known, is an increasingly common infection contracted following contact with fresh water in infected areas.

  Academic text (2012)

• Finally, chronic infections such as bilharzia or long-term or repeated bladder infections are known to increase the risk.

  Academic text (2011)

• Another threat may come from sharp reductions in the abundance of snail-eating fish, which will probably affect the prevalence of bilharzia.

  Academic text (1992)

• So nothing could be more natural than for a developing country to want to study bilharzia, beri-beri, yellow fever, malaria, cholera, typhoid, or hepatitis.

  Fiction book (1994)

• The liver and spleen enlargement that indicates bilharzia can be confused with the edema that is a sign of protein deficiency.

  Academic text (1991)

• They were dying of anemia, bilharzia, malaria, sepsis and mainly pulmonary and respiratory disease, pneumonia.

  Lex Fridman

• Yet the nature, the modes of transmission, and the aetiology of malaria, bilharzia, osteoporosis, gout, or broken legs, for instance, are by now quite well understood, either in general or case by case, though other pathologies like dyslexia or cancer remain rather more resistant to our explanatory efforts.

  Academic text (2001)

Synonyms

S

schistosomiasis

vsbilharzia

• Specialized

1 9.9

A disease caused by small worms that enter the body through warm freshwater

is the common regional name focusing on general disease occurrence rather than water source

B

bilharziasis

vsbilharzia

• Specialized

9.9

A disease caused by tiny water worms that infect people in tropical areas

is the shorter common form used instead of the longer variant

H

helminthiasis

vsbilharzia

• Specialized

9.9

A disease caused by worms that live inside the body

is a specific infection caused by a particular genus of worms

Surface Forms

Etymology