1. (noun) 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

• dracunculiasis
• guinea worm disease

2. (noun) parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates

• dracunculus medinensis

1. (noun) parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates

• dracunculus
• genus dracunculus

1. (noun) 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

• infestation

2. (noun) parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates

• nematode
• nematode worm
• roundworm