threadworm
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threadworms
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Origin of threadworm
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However, researchers said the results were not conclusive on how well it treated threadworm.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2025
The question is answered when hate notes and truck-loads of pansies are delivered to my training camp, the little sanctuary where I skip rope while listening to taped lectures on coronary collateralization and threadworm infection.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
The reader may well express doubt as to whether what has been demonstrated for the threadworm can be demonstrated for the higher animals, including man.
From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe
Boveri, studying the development of a threadworm, made the interesting discovery that this differentiation began at the first division.
From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe
By bringing his imagination into play, the reader will realize that there is no limit to the backward continuity of this germ-plasm in the threadworm.
From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe
It will continue in some branch, as long as there are any threadworms or descendants of threadworms in the world.
From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe
And again for relieving the itching of the fundament caused by the presence of threadworms.
From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie
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