entozoon
Americannoun
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entozoa
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noun
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Origin of entozoon
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When you know the entozoon you can dig him out and save the sheep's life.
From Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers by Arthur Brisbane
It is a semi-transparent entozoon; each segment is long compared to its breadth, and narrowed at both ends.
From Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton
The entozoon of course gives rise to a variety of stale and melancholy jokes about the early bird, the worm that dieth not, and so forth.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
An "entozoon" seems to the practical man a foolish, imaginary creature.
From Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers by Arthur Brisbane
It spends its whole existence there, and is distinguished from other entozoa by having the mouth between two pores on each side, through which a spicular process comes out.
From A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. by Ambrose Blacklock
The parasitic diseases arising from the introduction into the body, through food, of the larvae of the entozoa, would cease.
From Hygeia, a City of Health by Benjamin Ward Richardson
Galvanism may bring gelatinous matter into the form of an insect, or infusoria, or entozoa; but there is no evidence that it can impart life, however exquisite the organization.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock
Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
Perhaps the prevailing doctrine is in nothing placed in greater difficulties than it is with regard to the entozoa, or creatures which live within the bodies of others.
From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers
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