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Bilharziasis

Definition: Bilharziasis

Bilharziasis

Noun

1. An infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected.

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Specialty Definitions: Bilharziasis

DomainDefinitions

Medicine

A disease caused to man and animals by parasitic worms(Cercariae)produced from free swimming larvae(Miracida)which depend on certain species of aquatic snails for their life cycle; the requirements for the bilharziasis cycle of the parasite and the transmission of the disease are:infected people and animals; introduction of parasite eggs into water bodies, presence of particular species of snails, contact of people and animals with the water ; a group of diseases caused by trematode parasitic flukes of the family Schistosomatidae. Source: European Union. (references)

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Synonyms: Bilharziasis

Synonyms: bilharzia (n), schistosomiasis (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Bilharziasis

Specialty definitions using "bilharziasis": Schistosoma mansoni. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Bilharziasis

DomainTitle

Books

  • A synopsis of African bilharziasis (reference)

  • Snail Control in the Prevention of Bilharziasis (Monograph, No 50) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Bilharziasis

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Travel

Ghana

They may be infested with organisms that cause schistosomiasis (also called Bilharziasis), a parasitic disease transmitted through the skin. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bilharziasis

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

bilharziasis

4
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Modern Translations: Bilharziasis

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

Danish

  

bilharziose (Egyptian hematuria, schistosomiasis), sneglefeber (schistosomiasis), schistosomiasis (schistosomiasis). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bilharziose (schistosomiasis), bilharzia (schistosomiasis), schistosomiasis (schistosomiasis), schistosomiase (schistosomiasis). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

bilhartsioosi (schistosomiasis). (various references)

   

French

  

bilharziose (bilharzia), schistosomiase. (various references)

   

German

  

Bilharziose (bilharzia, schistosomiasis), Bilharzia-Krankheit (schistosomiasis), Schistosomiasis (schistosomiasis). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σχιζοστομίασις (schistosomiasis), βιλαρζίωσις (schistosomiasis). (various references)

   

Italian

  

bilharziosi (schistosomiasis), schistosomiasi (schistosomiasis). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ilharziasisbay

   

Portuguese

  

bilharziose (schistosomiasis), esquistossomose (schistosomiasis). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

bilharziosis (schistosomiasis), esquistosomiasis (schistosomiasis). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

billharva (schistosomiasis). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Bilharziasis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-h-i-i-i-l-r-s-s-z"

-2 letters: bilharzias.

-3 letters: bilharzia.

-4 letters: albizias.

-5 letters: albizia, ashlars, basilar, bharals, brasils, brazils, zaribas.

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Alternative Orthography: Bilharziasis


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

42 69 6C 68 61 72 7A 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)

01000010 01101001 01101100 01101000 01100001 01110010 01111010 01101001 01100001 01110011 01101001 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0069 006C 0068 0061 0072 007A 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)

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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