filarial

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English

Etymology

From filaria +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

Adjective

filarial (not comparable)

  1. (medicine) Of or pertaining to the microscopic parasitic worms known as filaria, or an infestation thereof.
    • 1914, Edward Rhodes Stitt, The Diagnostics and Treatment of Tropical Diseases, page 266:
      The knowledge of a filarial infection of the region of the eye seems to date from the time of Magellan.
    • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 297:
      From a cosmetic standpoint, the filarial diseases [...] were especially unfortunate.
    • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 18:
      Other helminths or wormlike fellow travellers became common in the human gut, including the Enterobius (pinworm or threadworm), the yards-long tapeworm, and the filarial worms which cause elephantiasis and African river blindness.
  2. Straight, as if in a line.
    the filarial flight of birds

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Portuguese

Adjective

filarial m or f (plural filariais)

  1. (medicine) filarial (pertaining to filaria)
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