stomach worm
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
stomach worm (plural stomach worms)
- A common roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides), sometimes found in the human intestine, and rarely in the stomach.
- Any of other parasitic worms, such as Dispharynx nasuta.
Derived terms[edit]
- brown stomach worm (Teladorsagia circumcincta)
- large stomach worm (Haemonchus placei)
- lesser stomach worm (Ostertagia ostertagi)
- red stomach worm (Hyostrongylus rubidus)
- small stomach worm (Teladorsagia axei)
- giant stomach worm (Hirudinella ventricosa)
- twisted stomach worm (Haemonchus contortus)
References[edit]
- stomach worm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Ascaris lumbricoides on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Ascaris lumbricoides on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stomach worm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)