[
US
/ˈhɛɫmɪnθ/
]
NOUN
- worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes
How To Use helminth In A Sentence
- We go passing into the mid selenolatry for housebroken two televangelism and platyhelminthes concerned on the alpestrine of the goop. Rational Review
- Chronic inflammation, a common feature of helminthic infections, has been proposed to play a key role in carcinogenesis induced by parasites.
- Consequently, his conclusion that platyhelminths, nemerteans, and rotifers ‘appear to have never had’ a prototroch is not supported by his analysis.
- However, among helminth parasites, e.g., trematodes, cestodes, nematodes, and acanthocephalans, this is not the case.
- Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura, and hookworm are the most prevalent geohelminth infections.
- Experiments conducted by Dr. David Elliott, et al at the University of Iowa using mice with experimental inflammatory bowel disease showed that helminthic worms protected the animals from this disease.
- Sounding the arrival of the bagworm, Flickr user and aspiring helminthologist volcanojw recently spent a prolonged period observing and documenting the larva peeking out of its shell. DCist
- He also concluded that nemerteans, platyhelminths, and rotifers never had a prototroch.
- Platyhelminth parasites possess a unique and simplified redox system for diverse essential processes, and thus TGR is an excellent drug target for platyhelminth infections. BioMed Central - Latest articles
- We have used a number of different systems, but most often these have involved the helminth communities of frogs and small fish, insects and their gregarine parasites, and more recently, nematomorphs.