noun
- A painful and debilitating infestation contracted by drinking stagnant water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae that can mature inside a human's abdomen until the worm emerges through a painful blister in the person's skin.
- synonyms: Guinea worm disease, dracunculiasis
- Parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates.
- synonyms: Dracunculus medinensis
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