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myasis

myasis is the alternative form of myiasis.

Meaning of myiasis

Noun

myiasis (countable and uncountable, plural myiases)

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

Forms of myasis

pluralmyases

Questions about myasis

What is myasis the alternative form of?
Myasis is the alternative form of myiasis.

Words near myasis in the dictionary

  1. Myanmar snub-nosed monkey
  2. Myanmar snub-nosed monkeys
  3. Myanmarese
  4. Myanmarization
  5. myases
  6. myasis
  7. myasthenia
  8. myasthenia gravis
  9. myasthenialike
  10. myasthenias
  11. myasthenic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: myasis (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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