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Definition of Filarial
1. Adjective. Related to or infested with or transmitting parasitic worms especially filaria.
Definition of Filarial
1. a. Of, pertaining to, or caused by, filariæ and allied parasitic worms.
Definition of Filarial
1. Adjective. (medicine) Of or pertaining to the microscopic parasitic worms known as filaria, or an infestation thereof. ¹
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Definition of Filarial
1. filaria [adj] - See also: filaria
Medical Definition of Filarial
1. Pertaining to a filaria (or filariae), including the microfilaria stage. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Filarial
Literary usage of Filarial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tropical Diseases: A Manual of the Diseases of Warm Climates by Patrick Manson (1918)
"I have many times seen filarial orchitis, but I cannot say I have seen orchitis
... The fever attending filarial orchitis—which is usually associated with ..."
2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1892)
"The Treatment of filarial Disease of the Lymphatics.—Surgeon-Major Maitland
records the case of a Hindoo student, aged 24, who had been subject to this ..."
3. Diseases of the skin: Inluding the Acute Eruptive Fevers by Frank Crozer Knowles (1914)
"The filarial form of the affection has been described under the parasitic diseases.
Symptoms.—The disease usually develops without constitutional ..."
4. Laboratory Work with Mosquitoes by William Nathaniel Berkeley (1902)
"MOSQUITOES AND filarial DISEASE. A few words of introduction are needed.
The Filariae are nematode worms. Fifty or more species or varieties are described ..."
5. The Diseases of China, Including Formosa and Korea by William Hamilton Jefferys, James L. Maxwell (1910)
"For filarial Embryos. Fresh Examination.—For this much thicker films of blood
art required. Obtained in the same way by puncture, a much larger drop of ..."
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