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parasitosis

parasitosis noun: infestation with parasites.

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

parasitosis meaning in Tamil

parasitosis in Tamil

ஒட்டுண்ணித் தொற்று

Forms of parasitosis

pluralparasitoses

Origin of parasitosis

From parasite + -osis.

Words formed from parasitosis

Questions about parasitosis

What does parasitosis mean?
Parasitosis means infestation with parasites.
What is parasitosis in Tamil?
Parasitosis in Tamil is ஒட்டுண்ணித் தொற்று. See Parasitosis meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is parasitosis?
Parasitosis is a noun.
What is the plural of parasitosis?
The plural of parasitosis is parasitoses.

Words near parasitosis in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: parasitosis (page history and authors); parasitosis (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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