Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
wohl·fahr·tia Pronunciation:
"vOl-'färt-E-& Function:
noun 1 capitalized : a genus of larviparousdipteran flies of the family Sarcophagidae that commonly deposit their larvae in wounds or on the intact skin of humans and domestic animals causing severe cutaneous myiasis
2 : any fly of the genus
Wohlfahrtia Woláfart /'vOl-"färt/,
Peter (1675–1726), German physician. Wolfart was a practicing physician in Hanau, Germany,as well as a professor of medicine and anatomy, first at the secondary school and later at the college there.
