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onchocerciases

onchocerciases is the plural of onchocerciasis.

Meaning of onchocerciasis

Noun

onchocerciasis (countable and uncountable, plural onchocerciases)

  1. A disease caused by a worm of the genus Onchocerca, especially as transmitted to humans by flies and often causing blindness; common in tropical Africa.

Questions about onchocerciases

What is onchocerciases the plural of?
Onchocerciases is the plural of onchocerciasis.

Words near onchocerciases in the dictionary

  1. ONCHIT
  2. onchobothriid
  3. onchobothriids
  4. onchocercal
  5. onchocerchiasis
  6. onchocerciases
  7. onchocerciasis
  8. onchocercid
  9. onchocercids
  10. onchocercoma
  11. onchocercomas

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