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Hookworm

Any of various parasitic bloodsucking roundworms which cause disease, especially the species Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, having hooked mouthparts and entering their hosts by boring through the skin.

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Any of various parasitic bloodsucking roundworms which cause disease, especially the species Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, having hooked mouthparts and entering their hosts by boring through the skin.

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Word	Definition
ancylostomatidae	a family of worms that includes the hookworms.
family ancylostomatidaenoun	hookworms
ancylostomanoun	Any hookworm of the genus Ancylostoma.
blood wormnoun	A larva of any chironomid midge in the (family Chironomidae).
ancylostomidnoun	Any hookworm of the family Ancylostomidae
skin wormnoun	A small worm or other parasite which infects the skin.
horsehair wormnoun	Any of the Nematomorpha, a parasitic worm found throughout the world.
redwormnoun	A type of small, reddish earthworm, Lumbricus rubellus, used as bait in angling; also, in later use, the brandling, Eisenia foetida.
roundwormnoun	An invertebrate animal of the phylum Nematoda and other similar phyla. Many species of roundworms are parasites.
ascaridoidnoun	Any of the superfamily Ascaridoidea of roundworms.
maw-wormnoun	Any of several parasitic worms which infest the mammalian stomach and intestines, especially a nematode.
heartwormnoun	(veterinary medicine) (uncountable) The condition caused by this organism.
potwormnoun	Any worm in the family Enchytraeidae.
tapewormnoun	(countable) Any parasitical worm of the class or infraclass Cestoda, which infests the intestines of animals, including humans, often infecting different host species during their life cycle.
whipwormnoun	(medicine) Trichuris trichiura, a roundworm, causing trichuriasis when it infects a human large intestine.
nematodenoun	(zoology) A worm of the large phylum Nematoda, such as a roundworm or threadworm.
ancylostomenoun	Alternative form of ancylostoma (“type of hookworm”). [Any hookworm of the genus Ancylostoma.]
ancylostomatidnoun	(zoology) Any member of the family Ancylostomatidae of hookworms.
pinwormnoun	Any of several nematode worms, of the family Oxyuridae, that are parasitic to mammals
trichostrongylidnoun	Any of the family Trichostrongylidae of nematodes.