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Hookworm   /hˈʊkwərm/   Listen
Hookworm

noun
1.
Parasitic bloodsucking roundworms having hooked mouth parts to fasten to the intestinal wall of human and other hosts.
2.
Infestation of the intestines by hookworms which enter the body (usually) through the skin.  Synonym: hookworm disease.





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"Hookworm" Quotes from Famous Books



... strikes and lockouts among preventable industrial diseases, just as the modern science of medicine classes smallpox, diphtheria, typhoid fever, the plague, tuberculosis, and the hookworm amongst preventable bodily diseases. The strike is a violent eruption, according to those who have made the closest study of the situation, resulting from long-continued abuses of bad management, bad selection, bad assignment of duties, ...
— Analyzing Character • Katherine M. H. Blackford and Arthur Newcomb


Words linked to "Hookworm" :   Ancylostomatidae, roundworm, hookworm disease, nematode, nematode worm, family Ancylostomatidae, helminthiasis


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