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Briquet (medicine) and filariasis (iou)


Briquet (medicine)


Briquet


Paul, French physician, 1796-1881.

See: Briquet's ataxia, Briquet's syndrome.


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.