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Definition of Hookworm disease
1. Noun. Infestation of the intestines by hookworms which enter the body (usually) through the skin.
Medical Definition of Hookworm disease
1. See: ancylostomiasis, necatoriasis. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hookworm Disease
Literary usage of Hookworm disease
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Rockefeller Foundation (1921)
"II FIELD STUDIES OF hookworm disease Drs. Darling and Smillie have conducted in
Brazil a number of investigations in which they have sought to throw light ..."
2. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"It is now plain that hookworm disease presents a sanitary problem of first ...
hookworm disease encircles the globe in the tropical and subtropical climes ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1922)
"(1) the relation of the chicken and pig to the spread of hookworm disease, (2)
some of the factors influencing the hatching of the eggs, (3) the migrations ..."
4. Handbook of Therapy by Oliver Thomas Osborne, Morris Fishbein (1920)
"hookworm disease This disease is found in all tropical and southern temperate
zones; in the United States southward from the Potomac River latitude through ..."
5. Health and Disease: Their Determining Factors by Roger Irving Lee (1917)
"hookworm disease hookworm disease is of immense economic importance in the ...
In the Old World, hookworm disease was probably known nearly 3500 years ago, ..."
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