entozoon
noun
any animal parasite, as an intestinal worm, that lives within the body of its host (opposed to ectozoon).
entozoa
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pluralof entozoon.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Almost every animal is a living poor-house, and harbors one or more species of epizoa or entozoa, supplying them gratis, not only with a permanent home, but with all the necessaries and luxuries of life.
From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Henry Drummond
If, then, this view of the production of entozoa be received, it must be held as in no small degree favourable to the general doctrine of an organic creation by law.
From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers
We also know that similar entozoa in their wanderings in the tissues by accident of location, or by disease, or injury of their organs, not infrequently give rise to grave lesions in their hosts.
From West African studies by Mary Henrietta Kingsley
Even more remarkable is the case of certain entozoa.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer
Then it was alleged that the entozoa, the worms found in the bodies of animals, were self-produced, without eggs, until the microscope discovered that one could lay 60,000 eggs.
From Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Robert Patterson
