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bilharzia

UK/bɪlˈhɑː.zi.ə/US/bɪlˈhɑːr.zi.ə/

bilharzia noun: the parasitic disease schistosomiasis.

Noun

bilharzia (countable and uncountable, plural bilharzias)

  1. The parasitic disease schistosomiasis.
    • After one trip to Uganda, I tested positive for bilharzia, a type of parasitic worm infection carried by freshwater snails.2020, Louise Curtis with Sarah Johnson, A Nurseʼs Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis, Pan Books, page 14

bilharzia meaning in Tamil

bilharzia in Tamil

பில்காசியா

Forms of bilharzia

pluralbilharzias

Origin of bilharzia

After the German physician Theodor Bilharz. Originally a genus name denoting the genus now called Schistosoma.

Words formed from bilharzia

Questions about bilharzia

What does bilharzia mean?
Bilharzia means the parasitic disease schistosomiasis.
What is bilharzia in Tamil?
Bilharzia in Tamil is பில்காசியா. See Bilharzia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bilharzia?
Bilharzia is a noun.
How do you pronounce bilharzia?
Bilharzia is pronounced /bɪlˈhɑː.zi.ə/ (UK).
What is the plural of bilharzia?
The plural of bilharzia is bilharzias.

Words near bilharzia in the dictionary

  1. Bilginturan syndrome
  2. Bilgola Beach
  3. Bilgola Plateau
  4. bilgy
  5. Bilhah
  6. bilharzia
  7. bilharzial
  8. bilharzias
  9. bilharziases
  10. bilharziasis
  11. bilharzic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bilharzia (page history and authors); bilharzia (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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