Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of round-worms, typical of the family Ascaridæ, infesting the small intestines.
- noun [lowercase; pl. ascarides (as-kar′ i-dēz).] A thread-worm or pinworm of the rectum, formerly placed in this genus, now referred to a different genus, Oxyuris (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the type genus of the family Ascaridae: roundworms with a three-lipped mouth.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun type genus of the family Ascaridae: roundworms with a three-lipped mouth
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Examples
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But who hears about the guts of 1.5 billion people hosting greedy, parasitic, ascaris worms, about 740 million with hookworm voraciously devouring their blood, 200 million with debilitating schistosomiasis or up to 70 million with liver fluke?
Sanitation MDG is badly off track, but a community-led approach could fix that | Robert Chambers 2011
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The majority of pathogens exhibit survival periods which are normally shorter than the growth periods of most vegetables exceptions being the eggs of ascaris or taenia saginata, and the salmonella on root and low growing crops.
Chapter 6 1996
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The laxative effect kills or expels the ascaris (Ascaris lumbricoides?) and other stomach worms.
9: Domestic animals 1996
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Results showed that the most persistent pathogens were the helminths (intestinal nematodes), particularly the ascaris.
Chapter 9 1996
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It mainly concerns ascaris, trichuris, ankylostoma and strongyloides.
Chapter 3 1994
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Parasitic worms of man and other animals (e.g. ascaris).
Chapter 5 1994
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- Look for a cause (e.g. insect bites, drug allergy, invasive stage of a parasitic infection of ascaris, hookworm, strongyloides, schisto-somiasis or loa-loa).
Chapter 9 1993
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In some regions of Africa more than 20 percent of the adults suffer from onconserciasis blindness, or river blindness and more than 650 million persons of the Third World suffer from the ascaris parasite.
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The expulsion of the _ascaris lumbricoides_ may be very easily and pleasantly effected.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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The round worm, termed by naturalists, _ascaris lumbricoides_, varies from six inches to a foot in length, and resembles the common earth-worm.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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