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

Etymology

Origin of ascaris

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

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

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

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 older records contain instances of continued infantile priapism caused by the constant irritation of ascarides and also records of prolonged priapism associated with intense agony and spasmodic cramps.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

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

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

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 Henry Ebenezer Handerson

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 Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle