Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A large group of worms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) One of the grand divisions or branches of the animal kingdom. It is a large group including a vast number of species, most of which are parasitic. Called also
Enthelminthes ,Enthelmintha .
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Examples
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The new commitments aim to eradicate or reduce leprosy, lymphatic filariasis (also known as elephantiasis), blinding trachoma, sleeping sickness, Guinea worm, schistosomiasis (also called bilharzia), river blindness, soil-transmitted helminthes, Chagas disease and visceral leishmaniasis.
Agencies, Drug Makers, Gates Target 10 Diseases Jeanne Whalen 2012
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According to a 2008 survey conducted by the Access Project on the prevalence of schistosmiasis and soil-transmitted helminthes (commonly known as worms), a staggering 65.8 percent of school-age children in Rwanda are infected with one or more of these parasites.
Josh Ruxin: Mass Drug Administration; Not a Cure, But a Necessary Treatment 2010
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According to a 2008 survey conducted by the Access Project on the prevalence of schistosmiasis and soil-transmitted helminthes (commonly known as worms), a staggering 65.8 percent of school-age children in Rwanda are infected with one or more of these parasites.
Mass Drug Administration; Not a Cure, But a Necessary Treatment 2010
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According to a 2008 survey conducted by the Access Project on the prevalence of schistosmiasis and soil-transmitted helminthes (commonly known as worms), a staggering 65.8 percent of school-age children in Rwanda are infected with one or more of these parasites.
Josh Ruxin: Mass Drug Administration; Not a Cure, But a Necessary Treatment 2009
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La chaire est restée la même; elle comprend les vers, les helminthes, les mollusques, et ce qu'on appelait autrefois les
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It would be well to look for the entozoaires or helminthes of different animals and send them, declaring at the same time the animal and viscera whence the worm is extracted.
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Soil-transmitted helminthes, intestinal worms transmitted by fecal-oral contamination or through skin.
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Joseph K. K.tsao, a village chief in K.nya, has been leading the fight against lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis and soil transmitted helminthes as well as providing clean water through an improved filter system.
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According to a 2008 survey conducted by the Access Project on the prevalence of schistosmiasis and soil-transmitted helminthes (commonly known as worms), a staggering 65.8 percent of school-age children in Rwanda are infected with one or more of these parasites.
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Other insects are not derived from living parentage, but are generated spontaneously: some out of dew falling on leaves, ordinarily in spring-time, but not seldom in winter when there has been a stretch of fair weather and southerly winds; others grow in decaying mud or dung; others in timber, green or dry; some in the hair of animals; some in the flesh of animals; some in excrements: and some from excrement after it has been voided, and some from excrement yet within the living animal, like the helminthes or intestinal worms.
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