ascarides
- plural of ascaris.
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G.K..., a soldier aged 21 years, thin, tall, and who during his infancy had been subject to ascarides, has occasionally voided during more than 10 years past, portions of tænia.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin
The species mentioned specifically are lumbrici and ascarides or cucubitini, though the terms long, round, short and broad are also employed, and probably include the tape worm or taenia lata.
From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Handerson, Henry Ebenezer
Delisle mentions a young person who during a whole year passed pieces of ascarides and tenia, during which time he could not endure music.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
Pole mentions the expulsion of 441 lumbricoid worms in thirty-four days, and Fauconneau-Dufresne has reported a most remarkable case in which 5000 ascarides were discharged in less than three years, mostly by vomiting.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
He was destroyed, and one of these ascarides was found in the trachea.
From The Dog by Youatt, William
