Word Meanings - THREADWORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any long, slender nematode worm, especially the pinworm and filaria.

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• PINWORM
  A small nematoid worm , which is parasitic chiefly in the rectum of man. It is most common in children and aged persons.
• SLENDER
  Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i. -- Slen"der*ly, adv. -- Slen"der*ness, n. (more info) slendre, sclendre, fr. OD. slinder thin, slender, perhaps through a French form; cf. OD. slinderen,
• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• FILARIASIS
  The presence of filariæ in the blood; infection with filariæ.
• FILARIA
  A genus of slender, nematode worms of many species, parasitic in various animals. See Guinea worm.
• NEMATODE
  See NEMATOID
• FILARIAL
  Of, pertaining to, or caused by, filariæ and allied parasitic worms. 2. Straight, as if in a line; as, the filarial flight of birds.
• PSEUDOFILARIA
  One of the two elongated vibratile young formed by fission of the embryo during the development of certain Gregarinæ.
• ALFILARIA
  The pin grass , a weed in California.