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Word | Hookworm |
infestation of the intestines by hookworms which enter the body (usually) through the skin / parasitic bloodsucking roundworms having hooked mouth parts to fasten to the intestinal wall of human and other hosts / a parasitic nematode worm that inhabits the intestines of humans and other animals. It has hooklike mouthparts with which it attaches itself to the wall of the gut, puncturing the blood vessels and feeding on the blood., | |
Usage | ⇒ Back in the Stone Age (or the Middle Ages, for that matter), the immunoglobulin E system had its hands full fighting off roundworms, tapeworms, hookworms , and flukes; it had no time for being preciou |
Synonyms | hookworm disease, ringworm, tinea, acute articular rheumatism, ague, alkali disease, amebiasis, amebic dysentery, ankylostoma, anthrax, bacillary dysentery, bastard measles, black death, black fever, blackwater fever, breakbone fever, brucellosis, bubonic plague, cachectic fever, cerebral rheumatism, |
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