hookworm
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[edit]hookworm (countable and uncountable, plural hookworms)
- (countable) 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.
- Hypernyms: roundworm; worm; parasite
- Hyponyms: ancylostoma, Ancylostoma; Necator; Uncinaria
- (metonymically, uncountable) Infection with one of these parasites.
- Synonyms: miner's worm, miner's anaemia; miner's disease (in one of its senses)
- Hypernyms: helminthiasis, helminthosis; < disease; < condition
- Hyponyms: ancylostomiasis, Egyptian chlorosis, tunnel disease; necatoriasis; uncinariasis (all have been loosely called "synonymous")
- a case of hookworm
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[edit]parasitic worm
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See also
[edit]- ringworm (fungal infection)