RIVER BLINDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does river blindness mean? 

• RIVER BLINDNESS (noun)
  The noun RIVER BLINDNESS has 1 sense:

1. infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America

  Familiarity information: RIVER BLINDNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIVER BLINDNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

onchocerciasis; river blindness

Hypernyms ("river blindness" is a kind of...):

infestation (the state of being invaded or overrun by parasites)