Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun guinea_worm

2 senses of guinea worm

Sense 1
Guinea worm disease, Guinea worm, dracunculiasis -- (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)
       => infestation -- (the state of being invaded or overrun by parasites)

Sense 2
Guinea worm, Dracunculus medinensis -- (parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates)
       => nematode, nematode worm, roundworm -- (unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic)