entozoon
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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
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
An "entozoon" seems to the practical man a foolish, imaginary creature.
From Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers by Arthur Brisbane
Even more remarkable is the case of certain entozoa.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer
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
Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
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
The existence of entozoa, or parasitic animals, found in the interior of the bodies of other animals, and found nowhere else, is thought to support the same doctrine.
From A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' by Francis Bowen