Definition of Filarias

1. filaria [n] - See also: filaria

Lexicographical Neighbors of Filarias

filar micrometre
filar micrometre ocular
filar substance
filaree
filarees
filaria
filariae
filarial
filarial arthritis
filarial dermatosis
filarial periodicity
filarial synovitis
filarian
filarias (current term)
filariases
filariasis
filaricidal
filaricide
filaricides
filariform
filariform larva
filariid
filariids
filarioidea
filatories
filatory

Literary usage of Filarias

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1901)
"... specimens from the Island of St. Vincent filarias were found in six. ... Ala., and its immediate vicinity; filarias were found in chylous fluid ..."

2. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions by Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London (1901)
"The definitive host of these filarias is as yet unknown, but from the fact that Anopheles maculipennis is usually found in houses and stables, ..."

3. A Manual of clinical diagnosis by means of microscopic and chemical methods by Charles Edmund Simon (1907)
"During their absence from the peripheral circulation they may l^e found in the larger arteries and in the lungs. In non-active cases the number of filarias ..."

4. The Microscope in medicine by Lionel Smith Beale (1878)
"By two loops from the centre of its body it emits the filarias described by Carter in immense numbers. " My first specimen I got on Dec. ..."

5. Walter Reed and Yellow Fever by Howard Atwood Kelly (1906)
"This viscosity of the blood seems to prompt the filarias to endeavour to escape from their sheaths. They become restless and excited, alternately retiring ..."

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