entozoon
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entozoa
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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
You are to study men; not lice nor entozoa.
From Val d'Arno by John Ruskin
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
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
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
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
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