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hookworm
[ hook-wurm ]
noun
- any of certain bloodsucking nematode worms, as Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, parasitic in the intestine of humans and other animals.
- Also called hookworm disease. a disease caused by hookworms, which may enter the body by ingestion or through the skin of the feet or legs, causing abdominal pain, nausea, and, if untreated, severe anemia.
hookworm
/ ˈhʊkˌwɜːm /
noun
- any parasitic blood-sucking nematode worm of the family Ancylostomatidae, esp Ancylostoma duodenale or Necator americanus, both of which cause disease. They have hooked mouthparts and enter their hosts by boring through the skin
hookworm
/ hk′wûrm′ /
- Any of numerous small, parasitic nematode worms of the family Ancylostomatidae, having hooked mouthparts with which they fasten themselves to the intestinal walls of various animals, including humans.
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Example Sentences
Probably none are so infected with spiritual hookworm as the immigrants from Naples.
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Vinegar eels, the horsehair worm, the pork worm or trichina and the dread hookworm are examples.
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The people, largely farmers, become infected with a larval stage of the hookworm, which develops in moist earth.
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The hookworm, deadly as an asp, has got you in its loathsome grasp!
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But I will break the hookworm lose, and cook its everlasting goose!
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