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COSTIASIS
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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)