Definition of Entozoic

1. Adjective. Living within a living animal usually as a parasite. "Entozoic worms"

Exact synonyms: Endozoic, Entozoan
Derivative terms: Entozoan, Entozoon
Antonyms: Epizoic

Definition of Entozoic

1. living within an animal [adj]

Medical Definition of Entozoic

1. Pertaining to, or consisting of, the Entozoa. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Entozoic

entorhinal cortexes
entorhinal cortices
entosarc
entosterna
entosternum
entosthoblast
entosthoblasts
entothorax
entotic
entourage
entourages
entozoa
entozoal
entozoan
entozoans
entozoic (current term)
entozoologist
entozoologists
entozoon
entozoons
entr'acte
entr'd
entrada
entrail
entrailed
entrailing
entrails
entrain
entrainable
entrained

Literary usage of Entozoic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sewage Disposal in the United States by George W. Rafter, Moses Nelson Baker (1900)
"The entozoic diseases, while invasive rather than infectious, are also •common to men and animals : they are of interest in a discussion of .sewage disposal ..."

2. The Treatment and Utilisation of Sewage by William Henry Corfield (1887)
"The objection that animals may be suffering extensively from entozoic disease without ... Asa matter of fact, we do know where entozoic diseases are prev.i- ..."

3. A Digest of Facts Relating to the Treatment and Utilization of Sewage by William Henry Corfield (1871)
"... that sewage farming will cause the spread of entozoic diseases ; neither do we find that since the publication, in 1865, of the pamphlet referred to, ..."

4. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1905)
"This will answer especially for those children who can not take the entozoic powder (J. King). ... entozoic ..."

5. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1903)
"exhibited in this respect by many parasites belonging to other classes of the animal kingdom; but although the entozoic Infusoria are frequently called ..."

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