Master of suspense

[Keith Edkins]

"Michael Gochfeld" <gochfeld at EOHSI.RUTGERS.EDU> wrote in message
news:3D9220F0.BCC28FBC at eohsi.rutgers.edu...
> Ken, thanks for the interesting Hocking reference.  I object to the term
> scoleciasis which is derived from animals with scolex-es (i.e. Tape
Worms), and
> Myiaisis is the correct technical term for fly larvae (maggots).  This
leaves
> people free to provide a new term for lep-larvae-living-in gut-lining.
What
> does the code have to say about that?
>

An on-line dictionary[1] gives the (modern) Greek for caterpillar as
"kompia", so how about "kompiiasis"?

Keith Edkins

[1] http://www.kypros.org/cgi-bin/lexicon



 
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