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Filarial

Filarial \Fi*la"ri*al\, a.

  1. (Zo["o]l. & Med.) Of, pertaining to, or caused by, filari[ae] and allied parasitic worms.

  2. Straight, as if in a line; as, the filarial flight of birds.

Wiktionary
filarial

a. 1 (context medicine English) Of or pertaining to the microscopic parasitic worms known as filaria, or an infestation thereof. 2 Straight, as if in a line.

WordNet
filarial

adj. related to or infested with of transmitting parasitic worms especially filaria

Usage examples of "filarial".

Some enterprising filarial worms, having worked their way up into his eyeballs, started making him blind, and he grew very gaunt and miserable.