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Myiasis

Definition: Myiasis

Myiasis

Noun

1. Infestation of the body by the larvae of flies (usually through a wound or other opening) or any disease resulting from such infestation.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Myiasis

DomainDefinition

Health

The invasion of living tissues of man and other mammals by dipterous larvae. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Myiasis

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Flies can transmit food-borne diseases such as cholera, typhoid, paratyphoid, salmonellosis and dysentery, as well as myiasis, trachoma, and yaws. They breed in organic wastes, refuse and animal excrement. Credit: CDC.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Myiasis

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

myiasis

30

human myiasis

3
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Modern Translation: Myiasis

Language Translations for "myiasis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

myiasis (fly maggot disease). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

myase (fly maggot disease), vliegelarfziekte (fly maggot disease). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

myiaasi (fly maggot disease), kärpästoukkatauti (fly maggot disease). (various references)

   

French

  

myase. (various references)

   

German

  

Myiasis (fly maggot disease), Fliegenlarvenkrankheit (fly maggot disease). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γραμμοειδής μυίασις (creeping myiasis), ερπυστική μυίασις (creeping myiasis), δερματική μυίασις (creeping myiasis). (various references)

   

Italian

  

miasi (fly maggot disease). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

yiasismay

   

Portuguese

  

míase (fly maggot disease). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

miasis (fly maggot disease). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

myiasis (fly maggot disease). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Myiasis

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

et alii, myasis, nosogenum:Callitroga americana. (various references)

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Anagrams: Myiasis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-i-m-s-s-y"

-1 letter: missay, myasis.

-2 letters: amiss, massy, missy, simas.

-3 letters: aims, amis, isms, mass, mays, miss, says, sima, sims, yams.

-4 letters: aim, ais, ami, ass, ays, ism, mas, may, mis, say, sim, sis, yam.

-5 letters: ai, am, as, ay, is, ma, mi, my, si, ya.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-i-m-s-s-y"
 

+2 letters: fairyisms, missaying, mydriasis.

 

+3 letters: impassibly, missionary, sybaritism.

 

+4 letters: amyloidosis, impassively, impassivity, misanalysis, misassaying, misclassify, physicalism, seismically, sybaritisms, syndicalism.

 

+5 letters: assimilatory, assumability, dissimilarly, hemodialysis, inadmissibly, physicalisms, semimystical, sympathising, syndicalisms.

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Alternative Orthography: Myiasis


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 79 69 61 73 69 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01111001 01101001 01100001 01110011 01101001 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#121 &#105 &#97 &#115 &#105 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0079 0069 0061 0073 0069 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47917567857585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Translations: Ancient
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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