Definition of "filarial"

filarial

/fɪˈlɛəɹɪəl/

adjective
not comparable
1. (medicine) Of or pertaining to the microscopic parasitic worms known as filaria, or an infestation thereof.
  Quotations
  The knowledge of a filarial infection of the region of the eye seems to date from the time of Magellan.
  1914, Edward Rhodes Stitt, The Diagnostics and Treatment of Tropical Diseases, page 266
  From a cosmetic standpoint, the filarial diseases [...] were especially unfortunate.
  1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 297
  Other helminths or wormlike fellow travellers became common in the human gut, including the Enterobius (pinworm or threadworm), the yards-long tapeworm, and the filarial worms which cause elephantiasis and African river blindness.
  1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 18
2. Straight, as if in a line.