hookworm disease
noun
the nontechnical name for ancylostomiasis
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How to use hookworm disease in a sentence
We can prevent hookworm disease by preventing the ground from being polluted.
Keep-Well Stories for Little Folks | May Farinholt-JonesTwo Americans in Porto Rico showed the possibility of stamping out hookworm disease.
Among the diseases caused by parasitic animals are malaria, yellow fever, the sleeping sickness, and the hookworm disease.
A Civic Biology | George William HunterThey got the hookworm disease in religion and belonged to the shirkers, not the workers.
Studies in the Epistle of James | A. T. RobertsonThe hookworm disease, ankylostomiasis, has steadily decreased.
The Evolution of Modern Medicine | William Osler
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