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Roundworm meaning
An invertebrate animal of the phylum Nematoda and other similar phyla. Many species of roundworms are parasites.
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Senanayake continued: “We just went for the textbooks, looking up all the different types of roundworm that could cause neurological invasion and disease.
The Ophidascaris robertsi roundworm was pulled from the 64-year-old woman after brain surgery, still alive and wriggling.
Angiostrongyliasis, commonly known as rat lungworm disease, is caused by a parasitic roundworm and can have debilitating effects on an infected person’s brain and spinal cord.
Fresh vegetables can have roundworm eggs from manure made from animal feces and young children can get infected from accidentally consuming dirt.
Other potential infections from dogs include roundworm, salmonella and e-coli.
Click here for more information. main main Caenorhabditis elegans (maincitation) is a free-living (not parasitic ), transparent nematode (roundworm), about 1 mm in length, citation that lives in temperate soil environments.
Exceptions are common—for example, the roundworm C. elegans has an hermaphrodite and a male sex (a system called androdioecy ).
Soil taken from the Plantagenet King's remains was found to contain microscopic roundworm eggs.
The findings suggest that the higher concentration of eggs in the pelvic area probably arose from a roundworm infection the King suffered in his life, rather than from human waste dumped in the area at a later date, researchers said.
The roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans is studied because it has very defined development patterns involving fixed numbers of cells, and it can be rapidly assayed for abnormalities.