entozoon

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

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

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

If, then, this view of the production of entozoa be received, it must be held as in no small degree favourable to the general doctrine of an organic creation by law.

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

It spends its whole existence there, and is distinguished from other entozoa by having the mouth between two pores on each side, through which a spicular process comes out.

From A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. by Ambrose Blacklock

Then it was alleged that the entozoa, the worms found in the bodies of animals, were self-produced, without eggs, until the microscope discovered that one could lay 60,000 eggs.

From Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Robert Patterson

Almost every animal is a living poor-house, and harbors one or more species of epizoa or entozoa, supplying them gratis, not only with a permanent home, but with all the necessaries and luxuries of life.

From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Henry Drummond