Definition of Myasis

1. myiasis [n MYASES] - See also: myiasis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Myasis

mya
myal
myalgia
myalgia thermica
myalgias
myalgic
myalgic encephalomyelitis
myalism
myalisms
myall
myall wood
myalls
myanmar
myaria
myases
myasis (current term)
myasthenia
myasthenia gravis
myasthenia gravis and thymoma
myasthenias
myasthenic
myasthenic crisis
myasthenic facies
myasthenic reaction
myasthenic syndrome
myasthenics
myatonia
myatrophy

Literary usage of Myasis

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

1. Diseases of the chest, throat and nasal cavities by Ephraim Fletcher Ingals (1898)
"myasis narium is a condition very rare excepting in the tropics. It is characterized by destruction of the soft tissues and occasionally of the bone, ..."

2. Lang's German-English Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Allied by Hugo Lang, Milton Kayton Meyers (1913)
"... muscular pain myasis, /. disease produced by flies Myasthenie, ... of Robin Myelo-sklerose,/. sclerosis of spinal cord Myiasis -= myasis ..."

3. The Hahnemannian Monthly (1898)
"myasis OF THE NOSE AND EARS. ... cases of myasis —five of the ear and thirty-eight of the nostrils. ... have observed acase of myasis of the ear. ..."

4. Handbook of Medical Entomology by William Albert Riley, Oskar Augustus Johannsen (1915)
"Nevertheless, a study of the various cases of intestinal myasis caused by ... The best authenticated cases of myasis of the urinary passage have been due to ..."

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