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Definition of dracunculiasis



Overview of noun dracunculiasis

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1. Guinea worm disease, Guinea worm, dracunculiasis

(a painful and debilitating infestation contracted by drinking stagnant water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae that can mature inside a human's abdomen until the worm emerges through a painful blister in the person's skin)