parasitosis

English

Etymology

From parasite +‎ -osis.

Noun

parasitosis (countable and uncountable, plural parasitoses)

1. (medicine) Infestation with parasites.

Derived terms

• cleptoparasitosis
• delusional parasitosis
• ectoparasitosis
• endoparasitosis

Translations

infestation

• Czech: parazitóza (cs) f
• Italian: parassitosi (it) f
• Russian: паразито́з (ru) m (parazitóz)

Spanish

Noun

parasitosis f (plural parasitosis)

1. parasitosis

Further reading

• “parasitosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10