Crossword-Solution: ASCARID
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ascarid | n. | A parasitic nematoid worm, espec. the roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides, often occurring in the human intestine, and allied species found in domestic animals; also commonly applied to the pinworm (Oxyuris), often troublesome to children and aged persons. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ASCARID | anagram | ACARIDS, ARSACID |
We have 6 clues for the answer “ASCARID”
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| One of family of roundworms. | 1 answer |
| round worm | 1 answer |
| type of parasitic nematode | 1 answer |
| worm round | 1 answer |
| Roundworm | 4 answers |
| Worm | 60 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ASCARID (5)
What were the bits of blue and pink paper Aaron pressed into mudballs picked up in the various precincts of his property? Why did those slips oftentime change color, from blue to pink, or pink-to-blue? What was in those sacks of stuff--no dung of animals, but a sort of flour--that he intended to work into his soil? Aaron answered each question as best he could, Waziri supplying--and often inventing--Hausa words for concepts like phosphorous, ascarid worms, and litmus.
The ejaculatory duct of the large _Ascaridæ_ is for the most of its course surrounded by a muscular network which takes its origin from the two dilator cells of the gut (fig.
The protractors or exsertors in the large Ascaridæ consist of four flat band-like muscles which surround the spicule sac.
Additional clinical observations do not, indeed, lead to any definite conclusion as to the question whether _Ascaridæ_ produce a toxin which is capable of causing more or less injury either to the nervous system or to the blood, yet it may be worth while to give a brief review of this question.
Tetanus, as observed by Buchholz[562] in a girl, aged 17, and rapidly cured after expulsion of sixteen _Ascaridæ_, is manifestly rare, since only Rose[563] mentions this as a cause in his article on Tetanus.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1946).