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• 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
• n  parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates

• Guinea worm disease
• Guinea worm
• dracunculiasis
• Dracunculus medinensis