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

1 sense of river blindness

Sense 1
onchocerciasis, river blindness -- (infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America)
       => infestation -- (the state of being invaded or overrun by parasites)