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Entozoa   Listen
noun
Entozoa  n. pl.  (Zoöl.)
1.
A group of worms, including the tapeworms, flukes, roundworms, etc., most of which live parasitically in the interior of other animals; the Helminthes.
2.
An artificial group, including all kinds of animals living parasitically in others.





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"Entozoa" Quotes from Famous Books



... all the varied forms of paralysis, insanity, and other affections due to alcohol, would be completely effaced. The parasitic diseases arising from the introduction into the body, through food, of the larvae of the entozoa, would cease. That large class of deaths from pulmonary consumption, induced in less favoured cities by exposure to impure air and badly ventilated rooms, would, I believe, be reduced so as to bring down the ...
— Hygeia, a City of Health • Benjamin Ward Richardson


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