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pinworm

NOUN
  1. small threadlike worm infesting human intestines and rectum especially in children

How To Use pinworm In A Sentence

  • House flies are suspected of transmitting at least 65 human diseases such as typhoid fever, cholera, dysentery, tuberculosis, anthrax, leprosy, food poisoning, pinworms, hookworms, and some tapeworms.
  • One day I was in the nearby village of Lang Co, where I went every day except Sunday, to treat the villagers for their various ailments, which ranged from ringworm and pinworm to elephantiasis. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Dogs
  • If your child has ascariasis, she should be evaluated for other intestinal parasites, such as pinworm.
  • I called up the pharmaceutical company that manufactured the pinworm pill and spoke to one of their technical staff. Throwing children into oncoming traffic: The truth about Autism
  • Fear not, those with enterobiasis: the pinworms "just want to be left alone to live inside your colon ... Hypochondria: Maybe I Am Sorta Itchy
  • Although older texts emphasized parasitic infestation, this is a rare cause of pruritus ani except for pinworms in children.
  • When I checked it out, I knew right away they were pinworms.
  • (pinworm) - (Tapeworms and strongyloidiasis: second choice) Chapter 4
  • The most serious internal parasites are large and small strongyles, ascarids, bots, and pinworms.
  • In the pinworm soup there were squirming iridescent protozoa, single-celled giants that were almost as big as the multicellular worms. Parasite Rex
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