entozoon

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

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

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

Galvanism may bring gelatinous matter into the form of an insect, or infusoria, or entozoa; but there is no evidence that it can impart life, however exquisite the organization.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock

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

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

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