Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In zoology: In Cuvier's system, the second class of Radiata, containing the intestinal worms, divided into two orders, Nematoidea and Parenchymata. These divisions correspond to some extent with the general groups of the round worms and the fiat worms, but are not coincident with any modern orders
- Now, a general name, of no classificatory significance, of internal parasites, such as intestinal worms: opposed to Ectozoa, the ectoparasites. It applies to all entoparasites, the effect of the former usage of the word making it still specially applicable to the entoparasitic nematoids, trematoids, and cestoids. Also
Enterozoa . - A genus of arachnids.
- [lowercase] Plural of entozoön.
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of entozoon.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A group of worms, including the tapeworms, flukes, roundworms, etc., most of which live parasitically in the interior of other animals; the Helminthes.
- n. An artificial group, including all kinds of animals living parasitically in others.
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“Undoubtedly the fever is not so severe at Basile as in the lowlands, but there are here the usual drawbacks to West African high land, namely an over supply of rain, and equally saturating mists, to say nothing of sudden and extreme alternations of temperature, and so the colonists still fall off, and their children die continuously from the various entozoa which abound upon the island.”
“Some say it is because the natives who get their living by hammock-carrying poison them, others say the tsetse fly finishes them off; and others, and these I believe are right, say that entozoa are the cause.”
“But millions of sheep have been saved by the discovery that one of these fancy scientific entozoa, pressing on the brain, caused the sheep's death.”
“Some say it is because the natives who get their living by hammock - carrying poison them, others say the tsetse fly finishes them off; and others, and these I believe are right, say that entozoa are the cause.”
“West African high land, namely an over supply of rain, and equally saturating mists, to say nothing of sudden and extreme alternations of temperature, and so the colonists still fall off, and their children die continuously from the various entozoa which abound upon the island.”
“Polyps, sponges, and cystic entozoa, may also be included among hermaphrodites.”
“In other classes, as _entozoa_, there appear to be special provisions whereby the sperm-cells and germ-cells may be united; _i. e._, the male organs are developed and so disposed as to fecundate the ova of the same individual.”
“Almost every animal is a living poor-house, and harbors one or more species of _epizoa_ or _entozoa_, supplying them gratis, not only with a permanent home, but with all the necessaries and luxuries of life.”
“Even more remarkable is the case of certain entozoa.”
“Then it was alleged that the entozoa, the worms found in the bodies of animals, were self-produced, without eggs, until the microscope discovered that one could lay 60,000 eggs.”
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