helminth

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Over one billion people around the world have some type of intestinal worm infection (or intestinal helminth infection).

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  1. noun A worm, especially a parasitic roundworm or tapeworm.

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  • The therapeutic arsenal for the control of helminth infections contains only a few chemical classes. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Over one billion people around the world have some type of intestinal worm infection (or intestinal helminth infection). —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • Currently there are four drugs that the World Health Organization recommends for treating helminth infections transmitted by soil. —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • In humans situated in a highly endemic setting in China, administration of a single oral dose of tribendimidine cured up to 92\% of the common soil-transmitted helminth infections. —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are probing whether ingesting parasitic "helminth" whipworm eggs (in capsule form) can combat the flare-ups associated with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.
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  1. French helminthe, from Greek helmins, helminth-; see wel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Greek from ἑλμινς (ἑλμινθ-), also ἒλμις, a worm, particularly a maw-worm, intestinal worm, allied to ἑλιξ, a helix: see helix.
 

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/ˈhɛlmɪnθ/
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