MEANING
Infestation of living human or animal tissue by fly larvae.
Use it for
Living tissue harboring larvae; a neglected wound; biological invasion revealed during examinationMake the life stage and living host explicit rather than treating all maggots alike.
Words that belong together
- wound myiasis
- cutaneous myiasis
- a case of myiasis
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The veterinarian identified myiasis in the untreated wound.
What looked like a twitching scab was a case of myiasis.
Her account of wound myiasis was clinical, not sensational.
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Medical term for actual larval invasion; maggots on a dead carcass are not automatically myiasis. Avoid confusing all insect bites with it. Usually uncountable; technical count plural: myiases.
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