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‖ Oxyuris Zool.|ɒksɪˈ(j)ʊərɪs|
Pl. oxyˈurides |-ɪdiːz|.
[mod.L. (Rudolphi, 1809), f. Gr. ὀξυ- sharp + οὐρά tail.]
A genus of small thread-worms of the family Ascaridæ, inhabiting the rectum of various animals; O. vermicularis is frequent in that of man, especially of children.
1864Reader IV. 669/3 The minute oxyurides, so frequent a source of weakness and irritability in children. 1868Eng. Cycl. s.v. Entozoa, Oxyuris is characterised by being subulate posteriorly, having the mouth orbicular.
Hence oxyˈuric a. [-ic], pertaining to or produced by an Oxyuris, as ‘oxyuric irritation’ (Cent. Dict.); oxyˈuricide |-saɪd| [-cide 1], ‘a medicine which destroys Oxyurides’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.), an anthelmintic; oxyˈurifuge [-fuge] = prec.
1864T. S. Cobbold Entozoa xiii. 372 There is one Indian drug which appears to be very valuable, because it..is..a true Oxyuricide. 1881― in Jrnl. Linn. Soc. (1883) XVI. 187 The practical efficiency of the drug [milk of Papaw] as an oxyurifuge has been attested by Dr. Peckolt. |