Etymology

bilharzia

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Today it means: The parasitic disease schistosomiasis. Full definition →

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After the German physician Theodor Bilharz. Originally a genus name denoting the genus now called Schistosoma.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.