Word origin
[1885–90; ‹ NL
Bilharz(
ia) the genus of trematode worms causing the disease (after German physician Theodor
Bilharz (1825–62), who discovered the genus in 1852) +
-iasis]This word is first recorded in the period 1885–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: booster, lineup, retread, twofer, zoom-iasis is a noun suffix occurring in loanwords from Greek. Other words that use the affix-iasis include: elephantiasis, leontiasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, trichomoniasis