parasitosis

English

Etymology

From parasite +‎ -osis.

Noun

parasitosis (countable and uncountable, plural parasitoses)

1. (medicine) Infestation with parasites.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Dr. Gale E. Ridge, “Delusory parasitosis. The belief of being lived on by arthropods or other organisms”, in The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station‎^[1], page 1:

     The term delusions of parasitosis was coined by Wilson and Miller (1946) dispelling earlier use of the word acarophobia (Thibierge 1894), entomophobia, and parasitophobia.

Derived terms

• cleptoparasitosis
• delusional parasitosis
• ectoparasitosis
• endoparasitosis
• enteroparasitosis
• neuroparasitosis

Translations

infestation

• Czech: parazitóza (cs) f
• Italian: parassitosi (it) f
• Russian: паразито́з (ru) m (parazitóz)

Spanish

Noun

parasitosis f (plural parasitosis)

1. parasitosis

Further reading

• “parasitosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025