threadworm
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of threadworm
Example Sentences
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However, researchers said the results were not conclusive on how well it treated threadworm.
From BBC • Jan. 10, 2025
Thus far Government sanitary brigades have only sized up the enemy�a kind of filaria or threadworm, whose eggs are spread from victim to victim by gnats.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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 Popenoe, Paul
In the development of the threadworm of the horse according to Boveri, the very first cleavage of the ovum establishes a distinction between somatic and reproductive cells.
From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)
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