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guinea worm   (TTS Sound)

The noun guinea worm has 2 senses

• 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)


• Guinea worm, Dracunculus medinensis -- (parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates)