Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Infestation of tissue by fly larvae.
- noun A disease resulting from infestation of tissue by fly larvae.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The infestation of human beings by dipterous and other insect larva).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun medicine The
infestation of a livingvertebrate bymaggots .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun infestation of the body by the larvae of flies (usually through a wound or other opening) or any disease resulting from such infestation
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This rare and quite disgusting condition is known as myiasis, an infection or infestation of the body of animals and more rarely, humans, with the larva of botflies and
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I uncovered a few documented cases in medical journals of black soldier fly intestinal myiasis, which is when undigested larvae make your intestines their new home.
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▪ Risk of enteric myiasis: intestinal larval infection.
Archive 2006-01-01 Will 2006
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Mansour al-Qadasi, director-general of the GDAHVQ, said the screwworm fly, which causes myiasis, thrives in mild conditions with a specific level of humidity, preferring areas with plants.
IRIN 2009
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The process is meant to prevent myiasis, or "fly-strike," in which fly larvae infest and feed on the skin.
andPOP.com 2009
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The process is meant to prevent myiasis, or "fly-strike," in which fly larvae infest and feed on the skin.
andPOP.com 2009
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The process is meant to prevent myiasis, or "fly-strike," in which fly larvae infest and feed on the skin.
andPOP.com 2009
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The process is meant to prevent myiasis, or "fly-strike," in which fly larvae infest and feed on the skin.
andPOP.com 2009
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Zumpt proposed an alternative called "rectal myiasis".
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A dirty environment is one of the factors responsible for the spread of the screwworm fly, according to experts SANAA, 11 January 2009 (IRIN) - The General Department for Animal Health and Veterinary Quarantine (GDAHVQ) in Yemen's Ministry of Agriculture has deployed 21 field teams in the northeast to combat a new outbreak of myiasis, an infestation of human or animal tissue with fly larvae (maggots). near the border with Saudi Arabia in December 2007.
IRIN 2009
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