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Guinea worm, Dracunculus medinensis | parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates | |
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Guinea worm, Guinea worm disease, 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 |