xenodiagnosis

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English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

xeno- +‎ diagnosis

Noun [edit]

xenodiagnosis (plural xenodiagnoses)

  1. (medicine) diagnosis of an infectious disease (especially of trypanosomiasis) by exposure to a vector of that disease, incubating the vector and examining it for the presence of the disease