See Also: Filariasis(medicine)
filariasis(dictionary)
Brug's filariasis(medicine)
bancroftian filariasis(medicine)
periodic filariasis(medicine)

filariasis (iou)



filariasis noun. . L19.
[from FILARIA + -IASIS.]
Medicine. Any of a group of tropical diseases resulting from infection with filariae; spec. a disease, transmitted by mosquitoes, in which worms of the genera Wuchereria or Brugia are present in the lymph vessels, leading to elephantiasis.
Also filari'osis noun, pl. -oses , L19.