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miasis

miasis is the misspelling of myiasis.

Meaning of myiasis

Noun

myiasis (countable and uncountable, plural myiases)

  1. The infestation of a living vertebrate by maggots.
    Synonyms:
    flystrike

Questions about miasis

What is miasis the misspelling of?
Miasis is the misspelling of myiasis.

Words near miasis in the dictionary

  1. miarolitic
  2. MIAs
  3. miascite
  4. miascites
  5. miascitic
  6. miasis
  7. miaskite
  8. miaskites
  9. miaskitic
  10. miasm
  11. miasma

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Adapted from Wiktionary: miasis (page history and authors); myiasis (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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