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Definition of Hookworms
1. hookworm [n] - See also: hookworm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hookworms
Literary usage of Hookworms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Biology for Students in General, Medical and Technical Courses by William Martin Smallwood (1918)
"Tapeworms, hookworms, and Others. —There are a number of highly developed animals
... These are the well-known threadworms, tapeworms, hookworms and others. ..."
2. Animal Parasites and Human Disease by Asa Crawford Chandler (1922)
"CHAPTER XIV hookworms History. — For many years it was customary in the United
States to look upon the shiftless people to be found in our South as the ..."
3. Elementary Textbook of Economic Zoology and Entomology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Rennie Wilbur Doane (1915)
"CHAPTER XII TRICHINA, hookworms, FILARIA, AND PARASITIC ROUND-WORMS The large
group of hair-like or thread-like ..."
4. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1908)
"Nine hundred and thirty, or slightly less than one-fourth of the persons examined,
showed a double infection, of which hookworms and Trichuris gave 518, ..."
5. Annual Report by Rockefeller Foundation (1921)
"Hemoglobin index in relation to number of hookworms harbored. ... One child of
five years expelled 412 hookworms. In the latter state, moreover, ..."
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