See Also: hypodermyiasis(medicine)

surmise (oh) and hypodermyiasis (medicine)


surmise (oh)



[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Old French; Origin: , past participle of surmetre 'to accuse', from Latin supermettere 'to throw on', from mittere 'to send']
formal to guess that something is true, using the information you know already
surmise that
::When he came in, he didn't look up, so she surmised that he was in a bad mood.
-- surmise n [U and C]
::Charles was glad to have his surmise confirmed.

hypodermyiasis (medicine)


hypodermyiasis
Infestation with larvae of the genus hypoderma, the warble fly.