Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
blood·worm Pronunciation:
'bl&d-"w&rm Function:
noun : any of several comparatively large bloodsucking nematode worms of the genus
Strongylus that are parasitic in the large intestine of horses and have larvae which wander in the viscera and sometimes lodge in the intestinal blood vessels causing colic or more rarely afatal aneurysm called also
palisade worm, red worm
[bluhd-wurm] 
