loiasis

[ loh-ahy-uh-sis ]

nounPathology.
  1. infestation with the parasitic eye worm, Loa loa, of the subcutaneous tissues and orbit: endemic in West Africa.

Origin of loiasis

1
1910–15; <New Latin, equivalent to Lo(a) a worm genus + -iasis-iasis

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