Significados de candiru em inglês

Big mother of a candiru fish, hiding in the swap file.

Some of them, like the candiru, may well turn out not to be true.

So has the candiru been miscast as a penis-chomping villain?

Spotte is the only person to have ever dedicated themselves to seriously investigating the candiru myth.

Yet in the past few decades there has only been one solid report of a candiru attack.

A typical early account describes the candiru as "very small, but uniquely occupied in doing evil".

First, the patient insisted that the candiru had ascended his urine stream before violently lodging itself in his urethra.

The thing is, despite all the graphic depictions of genital mutilation, not one of these men ever witnessed a candiru attack.

When I told the salesman what I knew about the candiru, he seemed to transform from the Romantic into the Practical.

Of all the denizens of the Amazon basin, there is none more feared than the tiny fish known as the candiru.

In Manaus, the isolated capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas, a patient was wheeled in with a candiru in his urethra.

What emerges from their writing is a nightmarish picture of riverside communities scared to go near the water for fear of candiru attack.

As more consideration has been given to the candiru, scientists have attempted to explain why these fish would attack humans in such a way.

There are dozens of reports from the 19th and early 20th centuries of candiru behaviour, and every one relies exclusively on hearsay.

Big mother of a candiru fish, hiding in the swap file.

Some of them, like the candiru, may well turn out not to be true.