Crossword-Solution: MYIASIS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The part played by certain blood-sucking Diptera in the dissemination of disease is now well known (see MOSQUITO and TSETSE-FLY), and under the term _myiasis_ medical literature includes a lengthy recital of instances of the presence of Dipterous larvae in various parts of the living human body, and the injuries caused thereby.

The larvæ of the cheese flies (_Piophila casei_) may pass through the alimentary canal of human beings alive, and have been occasionally referred to in cases of internal myiasis.

Probably it was the same species of Muscid in the cases of myiasis nasi observed by von Tengemann, Delasiauve,[1083] Weber,[1084] Mankiewicz,[1085] and Kirschmann.[1086] In the case recorded by Prima,[1087] and in that recorded by Britton,[1088] the issue was a fatal one; in the latter the larvæ escaped through the pharynx and nose; the hyoid bone and the soft parts of the palate were destroyed, the speech and power of swallowing were hindered.

The cases reported by Pierre[1094] related to the forms of severe myiasis frequently to be observed in Guiana.

Frantzius does not consider this myiasis as an independent disease, but as a complication of ozæna of frequent occurrence in warm countries.