xenodiagnosis

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English

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Etymology

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From xeno- +‎ diagnosis.

Noun

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xenodiagnosis (countable and uncountable, plural xenodiagnoses)

  1. (medicine) The diagnosis of an infectious disease (especially of trypanosomiasis) by exposure to a vector of that disease, incubating the vector and examining it for the presence of the disease.