Crossword-Solution: HELMINTHOLOGY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Helminthology | n. | The natural history, or study, of worms, esp. parasitic worms. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “HELMINTHOLOGY”
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| WORMS in the body, study of | 1 answer |
| science of worms | 1 answer |
| the study of parasitic worms | 1 answer |
| study of worms | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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From 1868 he acted as Swiney lecturer on geology at the British Museum until 1873, when he became professor of botany at the Royal Veterinary College, afterwards filling a chair of helminthology which was specially created for him at that institution.
His special subject was helminthology, particularly the worms parasitic in man and animals, and as a physician he gained a considerable reputation in the diagnosis of cases depending on the presence of such organisms.
Zoology was divided into 11 chief articles, "Mammalia," "Ornithology," "Reptilia," "Ichthyology," "Mollusca," "Crustacea," "Arachnides," "Entomology," "Helminthology," "Zoophytes," and "Animalcule"--all by James Wilson.
Dujardin, the knowledge of the helminthes (helminthology) developed into a special study, but unfortunately it lost all connection with zoology.
Moreover, at the end of the eighteenth and the commencement of the nineteenth centuries, after helminthology had been raised to a special branch of study by the successful results of the investigations of numerous authors (Goeze, Bloch, Pallas, Müller, Batsch, Rudolphi, Bremser), many of whom experienced a “divine joy” in searching the intestines of animals for helminthes, some authors reverted to _generatio æquivoca_, without, however, entirely denying the existence of organs of generation and eggs.