myiasis
/maɪˈaɪ.ə.sɪs/noun
myiasis is a noun meaning “The infestation of a living vertebrate by maggots” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-Y-I-A-S-I-S, and it appears about once in every 38 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of myiasis is myiases.
What does myiasis mean?
noun
- 1
The infestation of a living vertebrate by maggots.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce myiasis?
- /maɪˈaɪ.ə.sɪs/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of myiasis
- myiases plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is myiasis?
Myiasis appears about once in every 38 million words in written English, the 189,524th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Myiasis in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense infestation of a living vertebrate with maggots:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does myiasis come from?
From Ancient Greek μυῖα (muîa, “fly”) + -iasis.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).