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filaria
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filaria [fə′lar·ē·ə]
(invertebrate zoology)
A parasitic filamentous nematode belonging to the order Filaroidea.
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s not the actual parasitic filarial nematode worm that the Scots scientists are wanting to put into our bodies, it?
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