loiasis
/ləʊˈaɪəsɪs/noun
mass noun
- a tropical African disease caused by infestation with eye worms, which cause transient subcutaneous swellings, often accompanied by pain or fever罗阿丝虫病。
词源
early 20th cent.: modern Latin, from loa (a local Angolan word for the parasite) + -LASIS.