(medicine) Of or pertaining to the microscopic parasitic worms known as filaria, or an infestation thereof.
1914, Edward Rhodes Stitt, The Diagnostics and Treatment of Tropical Diseaseshttp://books.google.com/books?id=kWWFP6D4gT8C, page 266:The knowledge of a filarial infection of the region of the eye seems to date from the time of Magellan.
1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 297:From a cosmetic standpoint, the filarial diseases .... were especially unfortunate.
