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parasitoses

parasitoses is the plural of parasitosis.

Meaning of parasitosis

Noun

parasitosis (countable and uncountable, plural parasitoses)

  1. Infestation with parasites.
    • The term delusions of parasitosis was coined by Wilson and Miller (1946) dispelling earlier use of the word acarophobia (Thibierge 1894), entomophobia, and parasitophobia.(Can we date this quote?), Dr. Gale E. Ridge, “Delusory parasitosis. The belief of being lived on by arthropods or other organisms”, in The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, page 1

Questions about parasitoses

What is parasitoses the plural of?
Parasitoses is the plural of parasitosis.

Words near parasitoses in the dictionary

  1. parasitophore
  2. parasitophores
  3. parasitophorous
  4. parasitophorous vacuole
  5. parasitophorous vacuoles
  6. parasitoses
  7. parasitosis
  8. parasitostatic
  9. parasitotic
  10. parasitotoxic
  11. paraskavedekatriaphobia

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