entozoon
[en-tuh-zoh-on]
- any animal parasite, as an intestinal worm, that lives within the body of its host (opposed to ectozoon).
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Also entozoan.
Origin of entozoon
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He also showed that the entozoon was the cause of the hmaturia known to be endemic at the Cape.
ParasitesT. Spencer Cobbold
We know nothing, for certain, respecting the source of this entozoon.
ParasitesT. Spencer Cobbold
From the earliest times this entozoon has been confounded with the palisade worm.
ParasitesT. Spencer Cobbold
Experiments with the cultivation of our three species of the genus Nyctotherus and of Balantidium entozoon and B. coli.
The Biotic Associations of CockroachesLouis M. Roth
The occurrence, however, of this entozoon in an American red fox points to a very wide geographical distribution of the species.
ParasitesT. Spencer Cobbold
entozoon
entozoan
- any animal, such as a tapeworm, that lives within another animal, usually as a parasite
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entozoon
(ĕn′tə-zō′ŏn′)- An animal parasite, such as a tapeworm or liver fluke, inhabiting any of the internal organs or tissues.
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