entozoon
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It is a semi-transparent entozoon; each segment is long compared to its breadth, and narrowed at both ends.
From Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton
An "entozoon" seems to the practical man a foolish, imaginary creature.
From Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers by Arthur Brisbane
When you know the entozoon you can dig him out and save the sheep's life.
From Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers by Arthur Brisbane
The entozoon of course gives rise to a variety of stale and melancholy jokes about the early bird, the worm that dieth not, and so forth.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
The parasitic diseases arising from the introduction into the body, through food, of the larvae of the entozoa, would cease.
From Hygeia, a City of Health by Benjamin Ward Richardson
Perhaps the prevailing doctrine is in nothing placed in greater difficulties than it is with regard to the entozoa, or creatures which live within the bodies of others.
From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers
We also know that similar entozoa in their wanderings in the tissues by accident of location, or by disease, or injury of their organs, not infrequently give rise to grave lesions in their hosts.
From West African studies by Mary Henrietta Kingsley
But millions of sheep have been saved by the discovery that one of these fancy scientific entozoa, pressing on the brain, caused the sheep's death.
From Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers by Arthur Brisbane
