guinea worm

noun2

1. •
   A species of nematode, (Dracunculus medinensis)
2. •
   A long, white parasitic worm, of species Dracunculus medinensis, which can live in human skin.

   • the rishta-doctors patiently removing guinea-worms, making an incision, trapping the three-foot-long creature's head in a cleft at the end of a stick, and then slowly winding it out of the incision — 2006