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.

synonyms: dracunculiasis, Guinea worm disease.

Dutch: dracunculiasis, guineaworm

Parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates.

synonym: Dracunculus medinensis.