NOUN
- worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes
How To Use parasitic worm In A Sentence
- Hookworms are small parasitic worms, with hook-like appendages on their mouths, that feed off the wall of the small intestine and can cause severe damage.
- Parasitic worms may be the commonest cause of chronic infection in humans.
- Bracken is cultivated commercially in America, Canada and Brazil as a remedy for bronchitis and parasitic worms.
- They pass on a parasitic worm that grows and grows and then breeds other worms under the skin. Times, Sunday Times
- Taking a look at Carvacrol alone it is a compound that has been cited for over 28 effects, ranging from Anthelmintic vermifuge or a compound that removes parasitic worms, to an Antiseptic. Archive 2007-09-01
- The kidneys were infected with a parasitic worm. The Sun
- Over the past decade, leeches and parasitic worms have also crawled back into favour as a treatment. Times, Sunday Times
- Instead, he con - tinued to accept a limited type of heterogenesis pertaining to the presumed production of gall-insects from living plant tissues and of parasitic worms by the host organism. SPONTANEOUS GENERATION
- They range in size from microscopic single-cell organisms to parasitic worms that can grow to several feet in length.
- They pass on a parasitic worm that grows and grows and then breeds other worms under the skin. Times, Sunday Times
