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onchocerciasis

/ɒŋkəsɜːˈkaɪəsɪs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.59 in modern English

Syllables
on-chocer-ci-a-sis
IPA
/ɒŋkəsɜːˈkaɪəsɪs/
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From New Latin Onchocerca (a genus of parasitic worms), from Ancient Greek ὄγκος (ónkos, “barb”) + κέρκος (kérkos, “tail”) + -iasis.

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Inflected Forms

onchocerciases (plural)

Synonyms

river blindness Robles' disease

Questions

How do you pronounce onchocerciasis?
The recorded pronunciation is /ɒŋkəsɜːˈkaɪəsɪs/.
What does onchocerciasis mean?
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.
Where does onchocerciasis come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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