Filaria Definition

fə-lârē-ə
filariae
noun
filariae
Any of a superfamily (Filarioidea) of threadlike, parasitic nematode worms that live in the blood and tissues of vertebrate animals: they are carried and transmitted by mosquitoes and other invertebrates.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
filaria
Plural:
filariae

Origin of Filaria

  • New Latin Fīlāria former genus name from Latin fīlum thread gwhī- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • 19th Century, New Latin Filaria (former name of genus), from Latin filum (“thread”).

    From Wiktionary

Filaria Sentence Examples

  • Many cisterns are infested with Guinea worm (filaria medinensis, Gm.).

  • Although several species belonging to the second class occasionally enter the bodies of water snails and other animals before reaching their definitive host, they undergo no alteration of form in this intermediate host; the case is different, however, in Filaria medinensis and other forms, in which a free larval is followed by a parasitic existence in two distinct hosts, all the changes being accompanied by a metamorphosis.

  • Filaria medinensis - the Guinea worm - is parasitic in the subcutaneous connective tissue of man (occasionally also in the horse).

  • Ten years later Manson discovered a second species, Filaria perstans, whose larvae live in the blood.

  • The adult stage of this form is the Filaria loa found in the subcutaneous tissues of the limbs.

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Words Starting With

FFIFIL

Words Ending With

AIARIA

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Words Starting With F and Ending With A

Starts With F & Ends With AStarts With FI & Ends With AStarts With F & Ends With IA

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With F7 Letter Words Ending With A