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Definition of Entozoa
1. n. pl. A group of worms, including the tapeworms, flukes, roundworms, etc., most of which live parasitically in the interior of other animals; the Helminthes.
Definition of Entozoa
1. Noun. (plural of entozoon) ¹
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Definition of Entozoa
1. entozoan [n] - See also: entozoan
Medical Definition of Entozoa
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Entozoa
Literary usage of Entozoa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Invertebrate by Richard Owen, William White Cooper (1843)
"The entozoa are hardly less remarkable for their tenacity of life and revival
from a state of apparent death than the Infusoria, and the knowledge of this ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1868)
"By Dr. COBBOLD, FRS, FLS The author presented a list of upwards of twenty distinct
forms of entozoa which had been recorded as infesting this group of birds ..."
3. Transactions of the Annual Meeting by Ohio State Medical Society (1894)
"A few of the facts thus accumulated concerning one subject, entozoa, are given
in detail in this paper. There are still, it is thought, many interesting and ..."
4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"The entozoa or Intestinal Worms are remarkable, because the greater number inhabit
... They present no trace of a true circulation, and we merely entozoa ..."
5. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1867)
"Having given, in a short introduction, a complete list of the human entozoa, Dr
Cobbold proceeds to describe the tapeworms, first in their mature, ..."
6. The microscope and its revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1856)
"This group includes the classes of entozoa or Intestinal "Worms, ... entozoa.—This
class consists almost entirely of animals of a very peculiar plan of ..."
7. The Microscope in Its Application to Practical Medicine by Lionel Smith Beale (1858)
"Examination of entozoa.—The microscopical examination of ... Many entozoa are
preserved very satisfactorily in glycerine. I have some beautiful preparations ..."
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