1. Parasitic roundworm of India and Africa that lives in the abdomen or beneath the skin of humans and other vertebrates
   - Dracunculus medinensis
    
2. 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
   "The village's new water filter helped prevent Guinea worm disease";
   - Guinea worm disease, dracunculiasis

Derived forms: Guinea worms

Type of: infestation, nematode, nematode worm, roundworm

Part of: Dracunculus, genus Dracunculus

Encyclopedia: Guinea worm