guinea-worm
Nouns
- (n) a painful and debilitating infestation contracted by drinking stagnant water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae that can mature inside a human's abdomen until the worm emerges through a painful blister in the person's skin dracunculiasis, Guinea worm disease,
- (n) parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates Dracunculus medinensis,