COSTIASIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A fatal disease of freshwater fish caused by a flagellated protozoan invading the skin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("costiasis" is a kind of...):

animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)

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