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filariasis Path.|fɪlɛərɪ-, fɪlɑːrɪˈeɪsɪs| Also filariˈosis. [f. filaria + -asis.] Any disease resulting from infection with filariæ.
1879Veterinarian LII. 401 (heading) Facts in Filariasis. 1888Brit. Med. Jrnl. 29 Sept. 728/2 The term ‘filariosis’, he [sc. Dr. Lancereaux] applies to the entire group of pathological conditions resulting from infection of the organism by the filaria sanguinis hominis. 1900G. H. F. Nuttall in C. Watson Encycl. Med. III. 464 Though the term ‘filariasis’ has been usually applied in medical works only to diseases due to Filaria Bancrofti, it appears advisable so to extend the term that it may include all diseases, both of man and animals, which are due to the presence and action of filariae. 1949H. W. Florey et al. Antibiotics II. xxxi. 1062 Filariasis in man has been treated with penicillin without effect. 1957L. F. R. Williams State of Israel 131 Some 20 per cent of the Cochin population suffered from filariasis. 1966Wright & Symmers Systemic Path. II. xxxiv. 1189 Wuchereria bancroftii, one of the causative organisms of filariosis, behaves in two respects like the malarial parasite. |