ascaris

American  

[as-kuh-ris] / ˈæs kə rɪs /

noun

• ascarides
  plural

1. any parasitic roundworm of the genus Ascaris, found in the human small intestine and causing colic and diarrhea.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• ascarides
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of ascaris

< New Latin (Linnaeus), the genus < Greek ascarís intestinal worm; compare earlier, late Middle English ascarides (plural) < Medieval Latin < Greek

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Example Sentences

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ascaris ascarides

A smaller, darker colored worm, called the needle-worm, or ascaris, inhabits the larger intestines.

From Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. by Richard L. Allen

Linnæus divides it into five orders: I. Intestina, Intestinal Animals: simple, naked, and destitute of limbs: for example, the earth-worm, the guinea-worm, the leech, and the ascaris: 7 genera, 24 species.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray

The appearance of the ascaris in the dog's stools is, of course, the diagnostic symptom.

From Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton

The stimulation of ascarides in the rectum produces by sensitive sympathy an itching of the nose, as explained in IV.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

He was destroyed, and one of these ascarides was found in the trachea.

From The Dog by William Youatt

Then, there are some gratuitous and unredeemed vulgarities; some images whose barbarity makes us shudder, of creeping ascarides and inexpugnable tapeworms.

From Burke by John Morley

"Yes; you've now seen the heart of the government, cousin, and you must next be shown the ascarides, the taenia, the intestinal worm,—the republican, since I must needs name him," said Leon.

From Unconscious Comedians by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

It has been said that packets of ascarides have been collected in the stomach containing more than one hundred worms.

From The Dog by William Youatt

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