myiasis Path.
(maɪɪˈeɪsɪs)
Also myasis.
[mod.L., f. Gr. µυῖα fly + -asis.]
Injury inflicted by dipterous larvæ on the human body.
| 1837 F. W. Hope in Trans. Entom. Soc. (1839) II. 259 The genera producing Myasis, or fly-disease. 1899 Sharp in Camb. Nat. Hist., Insects ii. 512 The various attacks of Dipterous larvæ on man have received the general name of ‘myiasis’. 1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 17 Dec. 1641 Dr. J. W. Stephens showed the larvae and flies of myiasis. |