guinea worm lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates
• a painful and debilitating infestation contracted by drinking stagnant water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae that can mature inside a human's abdomen until the worm emerges through a painful blister in the person's skin
• A genus of nematode parasites which inhabit the body cavity, serous membranes, and connective tissues of vertebrates. The parasitic species in humans is Dracunculus medinensis.