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Meanings of roundworm in English

Portuguese
tinha
Catalan
tinya
Spanish
empeine

Infections of the skin or nails caused by fungi and appearing as itching circular patches.

tinha
Portuguese
nematoda
Catalan
nematode
Spanish
nematoda

Unsegmented worms with elongated rounded body pointed at both ends; mostly free-living but some are parasitic.

nematoda
Usage of roundworm in English
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Tests from a soil sample near the body revealed multiple roundworm eggs.
BBC
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She has tested various molds on the laboratory roundworm C. elegans.
Reuters
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Ascaris lumbricoides or roundworm is one of the key soil-transmitted helminths affecting humans.
Pubmed
4
New research reveals that King Richard III suffered from roundworm.
BBC
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Nematoda The picture shows a hatching dog roundworm, a nematode found in dog faeces.
BBC
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Toxocara canis is an important roundworm of canids and a fearsome animal parasite of humans.
Pubmed
7
She shares the award with two men who found a treatment for another parasite - roundworm.
Radio NZ
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All potential hosts for roundworm, tapeworms, and flukes.
Cooking for geeks: real science, great hacks, and good food
9
William C Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura found a new way of tackling infections caused by roundworm parasites.
Radio NZ
10
Footage courtesy of University of Leicester Read the full story: Soil samples show Richard III suffered from roundworm
BBC
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The roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans is an attractive model for investigating how behavioral states are genetically and neuronally controlled.
Pubmed
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Scientists have identified a gene that directly links an ultra-low-calorie diet leads to longer life in the lowly roundworm.
Wired
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Recent clinical trials in China and Africa found tribendimidine to be effective against some roundworm parasites, particularly hookworms, they said.
Reuters
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Children putatively immune to the large roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides were identified in an area of Nigeria where infection is hyperendemic.
Pubmed
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A new species of roundworm, Halicephalobus mephisto, has been discovered hanging out at remarkable depths below ground in South Africa.
The Irish Times
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Before the mouse, the only species for which scientists had created an essentially complete connectome was the roundworm C. elegans.
Reuters
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