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hookworm disease

noun

  1. the nontechnical name for ancylostomiasis


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We can prevent hookworm disease by preventing the ground from being polluted.

Two Americans in Porto Rico showed the possibility of stamping out hookworm disease.

Among the diseases caused by parasitic animals are malaria, yellow fever, the sleeping sickness, and the hookworm disease.

They got the hookworm disease in religion and belonged to the shirkers, not the workers.

The hookworm disease, ankylostomiasis, has steadily decreased.

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