dracunculus medinensis
- n parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates
dracula
- n comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia: diminutive plants having bizarre and often sinister-looking flowers with pendulous scapes and motile lips
- n fictional vampire in a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker
dracunculiasis
- n 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