giardiasis


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
giardiasis /ˌdʒɪɑːˈdʌɪəsɪs/
noun infection of the intestine with a flagellate protozoan.
– origin early 20th cent.: from mod. L. Giardia (from the name of the French biologist Alfred M. Giard) + -asis.
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