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amebiasis

amebiasis is the alternative spelling of amoebiasis.

Meaning of amoebiasis

Noun

amoebiasis (plural amoebiases)

  1. (uncountable) Disease associated with the presence of amoebas.
  2. (countable) Any of various such diseases; most especially
  3. (countable) An infectious disease caused by the parasitic protozoan Entamoeba histolytica; amoebic dysentery.

Forms of amebiasis

pluralamebiases

Origin of amebiasis

From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: ameb- + -iasis.

Questions about amebiasis

What is amebiasis the alternative spelling of?
Amebiasis is the alternative spelling of amoebiasis.

Words near amebiasis in the dictionary

  1. amebalike
  2. ameban
  3. amebas
  4. amebean
  5. amebiases
  6. amebiasis
  7. amebic
  8. amebic dysentery
  9. amebicidal
  10. amebicide
  11. amebicides

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Adapted from Wiktionary: amebiasis (page history and authors); amoebiasis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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