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Then, there are some gratuitous and unredeemed vulgarities; some images whose barbarity makes us shudder, of creeping ascarides and inexpugnable tapeworms.

From Burke by Morley, John

The stimulation of ascarides in the rectum produces by sensitive sympathy an itching of the nose, as explained in IV.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

Delisle mentions a young person who during a whole year passed pieces of ascarides and tenia, during which time he could not endure music.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

The species mentioned specifically are lumbrici and ascarides or cucubitini, though the terms long, round, short and broad are also employed, and probably include the tape worm or taenia lata.

From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Handerson, Henry Ebenezer

A little later in life children are liable to ascarides or seat worms, called by some “pin worms.”

From Plain Talks on Avoided Subjects by Guernsey, Henry Newell