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Definition: Guinea Worm |
Guinea WormNoun1. Parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives beneath the skin of man and other vertebrates. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Guinea WormSynonym: Dracunculus medinensis (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Guinea Worm |
| English words defined with "Guinea worm": Tank worm. (references) |
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 | This helminth nematode parasite, also known as guinea worm, is gradually withdrawn from the body by winding the stick. Credit: CDC. |  | Woman and child by guinea worm infested lake, northern Ghana. Credit: CDC. |
 | Child with guinea worm, Changeshu Village, Ghana. Credit: CDC. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In 1998, 78,338 cases of Guinea worm were reported. (references) | |
Parents who have active Guinea worm disease cannot care for their children. (references) | ||
More than half of all cases of Guinea worm are reported from southern Sudan. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
guinea worm | 32 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-m-n-o-r-u-w" | |
-2 letters: airwomen, geranium, origanum. | |
-3 letters: enamour, germina, gourami, mangier, marengo, meouing, meowing, moraine, neuroma, organum, reaming, roaming, romaine, wagoner, warming, wearing, wireman, worming. | |
-4 letters: aerugo, airmen, anomie, arming, aweing, earing, earwig, enamor, engram, enigma, eringo, gainer, gamier, gamine, german, giaour, gnawer, gonium, granum, guinea, ignore, imager, maigre, manger, manure, margin, marine, mauger, maugre, mawing. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-m-n-o-r-u-w" | |
+2 letters: housewarming. | |
+3 letters: housewarmings, mouthwatering. | |
+5 letters: mouthwateringly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 75 69 6E 65 61 57 6F 72 6D |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01110101 01101001 01101110 01100101 01100001 00100000 01010111 01101111 01110010 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G u i n e a   W o r m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0075 0069 006E 0065 0061 0057 006F 0072 006D |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)418775807167257818479 |
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