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US
/ˈɹaʊndwɝm/
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[ UK /ɹˈaʊndwɜːm/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈaʊndwɜːm/ ]
NOUN
- infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches
- unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic
How To Use roundworm In A Sentence
- Mebendazole, is sold as a generic drug and has been used since the 1970s to treat roundworm, hookworm, pinworm, whipworm, and other worm-based parasitic infections. Mebendazol: A novel drug to be studied for metastatic Melanoma
- Canine heartworm is a serious and potentially fatal parasitic condition, transmitted by mosquitoes, in which roundworms develop in the heart and major blood vessels of dogs.
- Although the pinkroot is reported to have several remedial uses, presently herbal practitioners use the herb primarily to throw out worms, especially tapeworms and roundworms, from the intestines. Find Me A Cure
- But finding a mass of squirming roundworms is an unaesthetic experience, so fish from infected ponds are banned from being marketed fresh and can be sold only to processing plants, which pay much less.
- The tapeworms, common in many animals and often occurring in man, the roundworms of which the trichina (Fig. 3) that causes "measly" pork is a representative, are familiar examples. Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases
- He came up with the idea after noticing that a rise in cases of IBD coincided with a drop in infections caused by roundworms and human whipworms.
- Rectally administered tobacco infusions - whether employed against pinworms, roundworms, tapeworms, or threadworms - proved an effective vermifuge in sixteenth-century Europe.
- In an eighth-floor laboratory overlooking the East River, Cornelia I. Bargmann watches two colleagues manipulate a microscopic roundworm.
- The most common helminths are tapeworms and roundworms.
- UK - The health of Great Britain's livestock sector will receive a big boost thanks to a grant to fund research into potential new vaccines for parasitic diseases such as roundworm, tapeworm and fluke. ThePigSite - Global Pig Industry News Feeds