echinococcus
Americannoun
plural
echinococcinoun
Example Sentences
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To parasites of the kidney belong the echinococcus, the larval, or bladder worm, stage of the small echinococcus tapeworm of the dog.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
Some of these cases were doubtless instances of echinococcus, trichinae, or the result of rectovesical fistula, but Riverius mentions an instance in which, after drinking water containing worms, a person passed worms in the urine.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
The patient's spleen was removed by E. Hahn on account of an echinococcus on Feb.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by Myers, W.
The echinococcus, the cystic or larval stage of the echinococcus tapeworm of the dog, has been found in the eye of the horse, and a cysticercus is also reported.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
She was attacked with a severe inflammation of the right eye, which had to be enucleated, and was found full of tenia echinococcus, evidently derived from the dog's tongue.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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