hookworm

About 0.32 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Any of various parasitic bloodsucking roundworms which cause disease, especially the species Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, having hooked mouthparts and entering their hosts by boring through the skin.
2. noun Infection with one of these parasites.

   a case of hookworm

Similar words

ancylostomatidae family ancylostomatidae ancylostoma blood worm ancylostomid skin worm horsehair worm redworm roundworm ascaridoid

Often followed by

disease infection and infestation larvae in is infections eggs

Word family

hookworms