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Definition: Myiasis |
MyiasisNoun1. 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. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | The invasion of living tissues of man and other mammals by dipterous larvae. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | 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. |
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| 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 |
myiasis | 30 |
human myiasis | 3 |
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| 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 míase (fly maggot disease). (various references) miasis (fly maggot disease). (various references) myiasis (fly maggot disease). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | et alii, myasis, nosogenum:Callitroga americana. (various references) |
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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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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 79 69 61 73 69 73 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- -.--. .. .- ... .. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01111001 01101001 01100001 01110011 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M y i a s i s |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47917567857585 |
| 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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