Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A worm, especially a parasitic roundworm or tapeworm.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A worm; especially, an entozoan, entoparasitic, or intestinal worm, as a cestoid, trematoid, or nematoid. See cut under Cestoidea.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) An intestinal worm, or wormlike intestinal parasite; one of the Helminthes.
WordNet 3.0
- n. worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ἕλμινθ- (helminth-), stem of ἕλμινς (helmins, "intestinal worm"). (Wiktionary)
- French helminthe, from Greek helmins, helminth-; see wel-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It looks like the helminth the parasite rebalances the immune system," says Bobby Sandage , chief executive of Burlington, Mass.-based Coronado Biosciences, which is finishing up an early-stage clinical trial of whipworm to treat Crohn's disease.”
The Wall Street Journal: In a Squeaky-Clean World, a Worm Might Help Fight Disease
“The research published by David Artis, assistant professor in the Department of Pathobiology at Penn Vet, and colleagues may identify an important process in the immune response to helminth parasites and allergies.”
“The impact seems to be at least as profound on the helminth parasites of arctic rodents [151].”
“Human behavior and the epidemiology of helminth infections: Cultural practices and microepidemiology.”
“IgE allergies and helminth parasites: A new perspective on an old conundrum.”
“Origins, diversification, and historical structure of the helminth fauna inhabiting neotropical freshwater stingrays Potamotrygonidae.”
“The number of niches in intestinal helminth communities of Anguilla anguilla: Are there enough spaces for parasites?”
“Host fragmentation and helminth parasites: Hedging your bets against extinction.”
“In areas of high temperature and humidity, helminth eggs hatch very quickly and can develop into infective larvae in a short period, however they also expend their energy reserves quickly and cannot survive as long on pasture as they might in cooler or drier areas.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘helminth’.
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phrontistery - h
from phrontistery.info
habanera, habergeon, habilable, habilatory, habile, habiliment, habilitate, habromania, hachure, hackle, hackney, hadal and 568 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Most Obscure Words
acatalectic, acosmism, acuate, acuminate, adscititious, adytum, akratisma, alieniloquy, allelomorph, allochiria, allodium, alnage and 620 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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Alaric's Words
chelation, bradykinetic, twelfth, dank, kulak, oneiric, cathexis, yonder, quern, lissome, naiad, krakatoan and 124 more...
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Words of the Dying Earth
Tales of the Dying Earth is a 2002 anthology volume featuring four novels by Jack Vance: The Dying Earth, The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga and Rhialto the Marvellous.
Throughou...deodar, deodand, pelgrane, leucomorph, blister-bush, russet, black burdock, gunmetal, spatterlight, carrack, concertina, terce and 280 more...
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technomom's Words
misology, sacerdotal, omphaloskepsis, jimjams, incunabulum, repose, trecento, chimera, tridecennary, tenebrous, purblind, floruit and 207 more...
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Pernicious parasites
fluke, helminth, tapeworm, river blindness, onchocerciasis, chagas disease, american trypanos..., bilharzia, schistosomiasis, dracunculiasis, guinea worm disease, lymphatic filariasis and 55 more...
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ramage's Words
frass, gabion, packfong, scombroid, threnodial, helminth, oblite, glabella, sconce, naptha, quirt, farrago and 5 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for helminth.
chained_bear An Open Letter to the Intestinal Parasites I Managed to Pick Up in Africa This Summer.
See also open letter. Aug 29, 2008