hookworm
/hook-wurm/US // ˈhʊkˌwɜrm //UK // (ˈhʊkˌwɜːm) //
钩虫病,钩虫,钩虫症,勾虫
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : any of certain bloodsucking nematode worms, as Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, parasitic in the intestine of humans and other animals.
- : Also called hookworm disease . a disease caused by hookworms, which may enter the body by ingestion or through the skin of the feet or legs, causing abdominal pain, nausea, and, if untreated, severe anemia.
Examples
According to Mejia, warming in the Southeast has doubled the length of the infectious season for parasites such as hookworm, whose larvae hatch in warm, moist soils and infiltrate humans through bare feet.
Probably none are so infected with spiritual hookworm as the immigrants from Naples.
Vinegar eels, the horsehair worm, the pork worm or trichina and the dread hookworm are examples.
The people, largely farmers, become infected with a larval stage of the hookworm, which develops in moist earth.
The hookworm, deadly as an asp, has got you in its loathsome grasp!
But I will break the hookworm lose, and cook its everlasting goose!
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