hydatid disease

1. 1.

   infestation with larval echinococci (tapeworms)

   Synonymsechinococcosishydatidosis

   Broaderinfestation

Questions about hydatid disease

What does hydatid disease mean?

hydatid disease means "infestation with larval echinococci (tapeworms)".

What is another word for hydatid disease?

Close synonyms include echinococcosis, hydatidosis. 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 hydatid disease a common word?

hydatid 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.