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Definition of filaria in English: filarianounPlural filariae fɪˈlɛːrɪəfəˈlerēə A threadlike parasitic nematode worm that is transmitted by biting flies and mosquitoes, causing filariasis and related diseases. Superfamily Filarioidea, class Phasmida Example sentencesExamples - ARS researchers are using new biological controls to retaliate against the mosquito, an insect that can transmit viruses, protozoan parasites, and filariae (small worms).
- The Government campaign to eradicate filaria through the mass drug administration programme is good and in the interest of community health.
- The adult filariae lodge in the lymphatic system causing debilitating lymphoedema.
- Manson commented, ‘It is marvelous how Nature has adapted the habits of the filariae to those of the mosquito.’
- It was the younger Thomas Bancroft who proved in 1899 that filariae that actively developed in the mosquito were transferred to humans by the act of feeding on blood.
Derivatives adjective Infection with filarial nematodes is lifelong and individual adult worms can survive for 5 years or more within the parasitized host. Example sentencesExamples - Acute filarial fever, in fact, can often look like an attack of an other disease that is rampant in many of the same countries where filariasis is common: malaria.
- Here, then, was a possible explanation for the effectiveness of antibiotics against filarial nematodes.
- The human body is the host, the filarial nematode worm the agent, and the mosquito that picks up microfilariae during feeding the transmitter of the disease.
- Perhaps, at some stage long ago, the bacteria were transferred from insects to nematodes, since filarial nematodes reside in insects during some stages of their life cycles.
Origin Mid 19th century: from modern Latin Filaria (former genus name), from Latin filum 'thread'. Rhymes aquaria, area, armamentaria, Bavaria, Bulgaria, caldaria, cineraria, columbaria, frigidaria, Gran Canaria, herbaria, honoraria, malaria, pulmonaria, rosaria, sacraria, Samaria, solaria, tepidaria, terraria Definition of filaria in US English: filarianounfəˈlerēə A threadlike parasitic nematode worm that is transmitted by biting flies and mosquitoes, causing filariasis and related diseases. Superfamily Filarioidea, class Phasmida Example sentencesExamples - The Government campaign to eradicate filaria through the mass drug administration programme is good and in the interest of community health.
- ARS researchers are using new biological controls to retaliate against the mosquito, an insect that can transmit viruses, protozoan parasites, and filariae (small worms).
- It was the younger Thomas Bancroft who proved in 1899 that filariae that actively developed in the mosquito were transferred to humans by the act of feeding on blood.
- Manson commented, ‘It is marvelous how Nature has adapted the habits of the filariae to those of the mosquito.’
- The adult filariae lodge in the lymphatic system causing debilitating lymphoedema.
Origin Mid 19th century: from modern Latin Filaria (former genus name), from Latin filum ‘thread’. |