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entozoon Zool.|ɛntəʊˈzəʊən|
[mod. f. ento- + ζῷον animal.]
A parasitic animal that lives within another. Also attrib. In pl. Entoˈzoa, a class of animals taking their name from their mode of existence, though, as regards structure, they belong to various classes.
1836–9Todd Cycl. Anat. II. 114 This singular Entozoon [i.e. Trichina] I discovered in a portion of the muscles of a male subject. 1875H. Walton Dis. Eye 25 The entozoon was about the size of a garden-pea. 1856Lancet 12 Jan., Entozoon worms inhabiting the living body. 1882O'Donovan Merv II. 105 The stagnant rain-pools almost invariably contain the eggs of entozoon animals.
pl.1834McMurtrie Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 475 The second order of the Entozoa comprises, etc. 1851–9Owen in Adm. Man. Sci. Enq. 383 They should be examined for the presence of entozoa. 1876tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. 109 The fate of entozoa depends more upon chance than that of any other animals.
Also entoˈzoal a., (a) of or pertaining to the Entozoa; (b) of disease: caused by the presence of Entozoa. entoˈzoic a. [+-ic.] = prec. ˌentozooˈlogically adv., with reference to entozoology; from the point of view of an entozoologist. ˌentozoˈologist, one who studies entozoology; one who makes the Entozoa an especial study. ˌentozoˈology, that branch of zoology which treats of the Entozoa.
1864Reader IV. 669/2 For preventing the ravages of this, as of all other forms of *entozoal disease. 1866Ibid. No. 159 36/3 The entozoal portions.
1861Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. vii. 324 Crustaceous Entozoa..*Entozoic Worms. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 490 Some entozoic influence may be at work. 1879G. Allen Col. Sense iii. 24 The lower vermiform Articulata are mostly entozoic, and these of course are quite blind.
1865Reader 4 Feb. 143/2 Still, *entozoologically speaking, no harm follows. |