Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An intestinal parasite, Uncinaria americana or Ankylostoma duodenale: so called originally from the presence of rays or ribs, interpreted as hooks, in the membranous expansion or caudal bursa, at the hinder end of the male worm.
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Examples
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Pellagra (hook-worm or Lombardy Leprosy) is, according to the tenets of the Regular School, an endemic skin and spinal disease of Southern
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann
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Soon after this the investigations of a military surgeon demonstrated the important fact that ninety per cent of the working population of the island were affected with the hook-worm disease.
Home Missions in Action Edith H. Allen
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The hook-worm which affects so many persons in the South is often called
Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory
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Besides the more common ailments, with which all are familiar, there are many cases of hook-worm anemia and
Home Missions in Action Edith H. Allen
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I don't believe these hook-worm victims ever turned my father out.
The Prince and Betty 1928
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I don't know what it is – the hookworm, perhaps, – though he sees an old doctor up this way sometimes and he says it is n't the hook-worm.
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A resident of Santa Rosa, victim of the hook-worm.
Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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The Village Virus is the germ which -- it's extraordinarily like the hook-worm -- it infects ambitious people who stay too long in the provinces.
Main Street 1920
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The Village Virus is the germ which -- it's extraordinarily like the hook-worm -- it infects ambitious people who stay too long in the provinces.
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918
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"More like hook-worm, I said," he explained, speaking louder.
The Turmoil 1915
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