n :  a genus of filarial worms parasitic as adults in the body cavity of various ungulate mammals (as cattle and deer) and producing larvae that wander in the tissues and occas. invade the eye .
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  hys·te·ria  stria   suture  zed·o·ary 
 
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