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Onchocerciasis

Definition: Onchocerciasis

Onchocerciasis

Noun

1. Infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America.

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Specialty Definitions: Onchocerciasis

DomainDefinitions

Health

Infection with nematodes of the genus Onchocerca. Characteristics include the presence of firm subcutaneous nodules filled with adult worms, pruritus, and ocular lesions. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Onchocerciasis

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Onchocerciasis or river blindness is the world's second leading infectious cause of blindness. It is caused by Onchocerca volvulus, a parasitic worm that can live for up to fourteen years in the human body.

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Synonym: Onchocerciasis

Synonym: river blindness (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Onchocerciasis

Specialty definitions using "onchocerciasis": Onchocerciasis, Ocular. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Onchocerciasis" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Latin (River Blindness).

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Commercial Usage: Onchocerciasis

DomainTitle

Books

  • Community participation in onchocerciasis control programme in the Imo River Basin of Nigeria (reference)

  • Onchocerciasis : symptomatology, pathology, diagnosis (reference)

  • Onchocerciasis and Its Control: Report of a Who Expert Committee on Onchocerciasis Control (Technical Report Series , No 852) (reference)

  • Onchocerciasis and Mectizan: Training Activities for Community Health Workers (reference)

  • Onchocerciasis in Zaire : a new approach to the problem of river blindness (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Photo Album: Onchocerciasis

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Histopathology of Onchocerca volvulus nodule. Onchocerciasis. Parasite. Credit: CDC.

O. volvulus, the filarial parasite responsible for causing Onchocerciasis , River Blindness, is transmitted to its human host through the bite of Simulium spp. flies such as the Black Fly. Credit: CDC.

Nodules or lumps in the skin produced by the parasitic worms are one of the early signs of onchocerciasis. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by P.A. Pittet..

One of the telltale sings of onchocerciasis is the fibrous nodule which forms under the victim's skin. / UN/WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by R. Witlin..

In districts heavily infected with onchocerciasis there are villages where all the adults are blind. / WHO photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

... villagers of Djipologo, Upper Volta, who have lost their sight due to onchocerciasis. / WHO photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

... onchocerciasis is a reality that leaves an unhappy legacy of damaged or destroyed eyesight. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by R.C. da Silva..

Onchocerciasis victim in the village of Tienkura, Upper Volta. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by E. Mandelmann..

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Usage Frequency: Onchocerciasis

"Onchocerciasis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Onchocerciasis" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%5157,705

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Onchocerciasis

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

onchocerciasis

17
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Modern Translations: Onchocerciasis

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

Danish

  

onchocerkiasis (onchocercosis). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

onchocerciasis (onchocercosis). (various references)

   

French

  

onchocercose (onchocercosis), cécité des rivières (onchocercosis). (various references)

   

German

  

Onchozerkose (onchocercosis), Onchocercosis (onchocercosis), Dermatitis nodosa tropica (onchocercosis), -ciasis (onchocercosis). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ογκοκέρκωσις (onchocercosis), ονχοκερκίαση (river blindness), οζώδης τροπική δερματίτις (onchocercosis). (various references)

   

Italian

  

oncocercosi (onchocercosis, river blindness), oncocerchiasi (river blindness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

onchocerciasisay

   

Spanish

  

oncocercosis (onchocercosis, river blindness), oncocerciasis (onchocercosis). (various references)

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Anagrams: Onchocerciasis

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Alternative Orthography: Onchocerciasis


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

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

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

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial 		5. Images: Photo Album
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern 		9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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