Guinea worm

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noun

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
• Syn:
Guinea worm disease, dracunculiasis
• Hypernyms:
infestation
2. parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates
• Syn:
Dracunculus medinensis
• Hypernyms:
nematode, nematode worm, roundworm
• Member Holonyms:
Dracunculus, genus Dracunculus