guinea worm disease

1. 1.

   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

   SynonymsGuinea wormdracunculiasis

   Broaderinfestation

Questions about guinea worm disease

What does guinea worm disease mean?

guinea worm disease means "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".

What is another word for guinea worm disease?

Close synonyms include Guinea worm, dracunculiasis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is guinea worm disease a common word?

guinea worm disease is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.