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FILARIAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does filarial mean?
• FILARIAL (adjective)
The adjective FILARIAL has 1 sense:
1. related to or infested with or transmitting parasitic worms especially filaria
Familiarity information: FILARIAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Related to or infested with or transmitting parasitic worms especially filaria
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
filaria (slender threadlike roundworms living in the blood and tissues of vertebrates; transmitted as larvae by biting insects)
Derivation:
filaria (slender threadlike roundworms living in the blood and tissues of vertebrates; transmitted as larvae by biting insects)
Context examples
Mosquitoes also transmit Dengue viruses and filarial worms.
(How mosquitoes detect people, NIH)
A parasitic infection caused by genus of filarial worms called Dipetalonema.
(Dipetalonemiasis, NCI Thesaurus)
Filarial infection of the eyes transmitted from person to person by bites of Onchocerca volvulus-infected black flies.
(Ocular Onchocerciasis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Elephantiasis caused by filarial infection is ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL.
(Elephantiasis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
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