Schistosomiasis

Definition: Schistosomiasis

Schistosomiasis

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.

Specialty Definitions: Schistosomiasis

Domain	Definitions
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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Commercial Usage: Schistosomiasis

Domain	Title
References	The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Schistosomiasis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Gender, Behavior, and Health: Schistosomiasis Transmission and Control in Rural Egypt (reference) Health education in the control of schistosomiasis (reference) Human schistosomiasis (reference) Immunoparasitology: Principles and Methods in Malaria and Schistosomiasis Research (reference) Schistosomiasis in Twentieth Century Africa: Historical Studies on West Africa & Sudan. K (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Schistosomiasis

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Schistosomiasis warning signs (Do not bathe yourself here. There is Bilharzia). Puerto Rico, 1954.Credit: CDC.		Boys wading in stream in Puerto Rico despite sign on bank: "Danger - There is Bilharzia." Schistosomiasis.Credit: CDC.
	Studying the parasite of the disease at the Institute for Schistosomiasis Research, Cairo University. / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by D. Henrioud..		People become infected with schistosomiasis when bathing and washing in irrigation canals. / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by D. Henrioud..
	People become infected with schistosomiasis when bathing and washing in irrigation canals. / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by D. Henrioud..		Schistosomiasis / Elon Clark.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Schistosomiasis

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Jordan P. Schistosomiasis. (references)
		Schistosomiasis is caused by digenetic blood trematodes. (references)
		Tsang VCW, Wilkins PP. Immunodiagnosis of schistosomiasis. (references)
Travel	Ghana	They may be infested with organisms that cause schistosomiasis (also called Bilharziasis), a parasitic disease transmitted through the skin. (references)
	Egypt	However, there is a risk of exposure to bacterial infections, hepatitis, and the parasitic disease schistosomiasis (Bilharzia), when swimming in the Nile or canals, walking barefoot along the Nile, or drinking untreated river water. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Schistosomiasis

"Schistosomiasis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Schistosomiasis" is used about 16 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)

Expressions: Schistosomiasis

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Schistosomiasis

Modern Translations: Schistosomiasis

Language		Translations for "schistosomiasis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		血吸虫病. (various references)

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

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

Finnish		bilhartsioosi (bilharziasis). (various references)

French		schistosomiase, bilharziose. (various references)

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

Greek		σχιζοστομίασις (bilharziasis), βιλαρζίωσις (bilharziasis). (various references)

Italian		schistosomiasi (bilharziasis), bilharziosi (bilharziasis). (various references)

Pig Latin		istosomiasisschay

Portuguese		esquistossomose (bilharziasis), bilharziose (bilharziasis). (various references)

Spanish		esquistosomiasis (bilharziasis), bilharziosis (bilharziasis). (various references)

Swedish		billharva (bilharziasis), bilharzious. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Schistosomiasis

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	Words within the letters "a-c-h-i-i-i-m-o-o-s-s-s-s-s-t"
	-5 letters: masochists, mosaicists.
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Alternative Orthography: Schistosomiasis

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

53 63 68 69 73 74 6F 73 6F 6D 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)

01010011 01100011 01101000 01101001 01110011 01110100 01101111 01110011 01101111 01101101 01101001 01100001 01110011 01101001 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#99 &#104 &#105 &#115 &#116 &#111 &#115 &#111 &#109 &#105 &#97 &#115 &#105 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0063 0068 0069 0073 0074 006F 0073 006F 006D 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)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	16	87,710

Expressions using "schistosomiasis": hepatic schistosomiasis ♦ intestinal schistosomiasis ♦ Schistosomiasis haematobia ♦ schistosomiasis japonica ♦ Schistosomiasis mansoni. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression	Frequency per Day
schistosomiasis	64
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Schistosomiasis

Definition: Schistosomiasis