Crossword-Solution: OXYURIS
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEEAR
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greedy person
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Sentences with OXYURIS (5)
PIN WORM, THREAD OR MAW WORM (Oxyuris Curvilis) This worm when full grown is about one and three-quarter inches in length; its tail is thin and whip-like and head thick and terminating in a curve somewhat resembling the crook of a stick.
Nematode worms infest both the small and large intestine; _Ascaris lumbricoides_, the common round worm, and the male _Oxyuris vermicularis_ are found in the small bowel, the adult female _Oxyuris vermicularis_ and the _Tricocephalus dispar_ in the large.
Moreover, one can understand that the eggs of Oxyuris are transferred from person to person by the hand, directly or indirectly.
This again explains the wholesale infections which occur in collective dwellings, after a person harbouring Oxyuris has been admitted into boarding-houses, etc.
With regard to the toxic action of Oxyuris there is only the single record of Hartmann,[579] who noticed the disappearance of epileptic fits and psychic disturbances in a girl, aged 13, after the removal of Oxyuris.