ankylostomiasis
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of ankylostomiasis
1885–90; < New Latin, equivalent to Ancylostom ( a ) a genus of hookworm ( ancylo-, stoma ) + -iasis -iasis
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The industrial diseases specified in the 3rd schedule of the act were anthrax, ankylostomiasis, and lead, mercury, phosphorus and arsenic poisoning or their sequelae.
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Bücklers reports an observation of 16% eosinophils in Oxyurides, of 19% in Ascarides; and Prof. Leichtenstern, as we learn from a private communication, has quite recently found 72% eosinophil cells in a case of Ankylostomiasis, and 34% in a case of Tænia mediocanellata.
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In a third case of Ankylostomiasis Zappert found no increase of eosinophil cells in the blood, nor the crystals in the fæces.
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Under his direction Bücklers established the interesting fact that Ankylostomiasis in its relation to eosinophilia does not occupy a special place in diseases caused by worms.
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The patient was a sufferer from ankylostomiasis.
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