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Symptoms depend on the part of the body infected
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schistosomiasis
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Wikipedia
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Schistosomiasis , also known as snail fever , is a disease caused by parasitic flatworms called schistosomes . The urinary tract or the intestines may be infected. Signs and symptoms may include abdominal pain , diarrhea , bloody stool , or blood in the ...
Wiktionary
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n. (context medicine English) Any of various diseases of humans caused by parasitic blood flukes of the genus ''Schistosoma''
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1906, from schistosome (1905), from Modern Latin Schistosoma , from Greek skhistos "divided, cloven" (see schist ) + soma "body" (see somato- ).
WordNet
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n. an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected [syn: bilharzia , bilharziasis ]
Usage examples of schistosomiasis.
Malaria, tuberculosis, diarrhea, dysentery, dengue fever, and schistosomiasis (bilharzia) are prevalent.
Then there were all the diseases one is vulnerable to in the woods--giardiasis, eastern equine encephalitis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, schistosomiasis, brucellosis, and shigellosis, to offer but a sampling.
Irrigation agriculture and fish farming provide ideal living conditions for the snails carrying schistosomiasis and for flukes that burrow through our skin as we wade through the feces-laden water.