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COSTIASIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does costiasis mean?
• COSTIASIS (noun)
The noun COSTIASIS has 1 sense:
1. a fatal disease of freshwater fish caused by a flagellated protozoan invading the skin
Familiarity information: COSTIASIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A fatal disease of freshwater fish caused by a flagellated protozoan invading the skin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("costiasis" is a kind of...):
animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)
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