ankylostomiasisn.
Pathol.
A disease, characterized chiefly by iron-deficiency anæmia, caused by a nematode worm ( Ankylostoma duodenale, or some similar species) parasitic in the intestines; also called hook-worm disease, tunnel-disease.
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wormc1000
vermes1728
invermination1808
helminthiasis1811
vermination1818
rishta1834
trichinosis1866
trichiniasis1867
filariasis1879
strongylosis1883
ankylostomiasis1887
tunnel-disease1887
ascariasis1888
taeniasis1896
hook-worm disease1902
Strongyloides1902
uncinariasis1902
tunnel-sickness1903
amœbiasis1905
redwater1906
schistosomiasis1906
paragonimiasis1907
strongyloidiasis1907
strongyloidosis1907
trichinelliasis1907
loaiasis1913
onchocercosis1918
trichuriasis1921
loa loa1923
hydatidosis1925
sparganosis1928
trichinellosis1958
1887 J. D. MacDonald tr. in Papers Legislative Council Ceylon 1886 No. lvii. 19 By the term anchylostomiasis, we designate the various pathological conditions which arise from the presence of the parasite anchylostoma duodenale in the human intestines.
1889 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 Sept. 656/2 Sudden death from ankylostomiasis.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 1043 The essential symptoms of ankylostomiasis are those of a progressive anæmia associated with symptoms of intestinal catarrh.
1931 J. Arthur Thomson in W. Rose Outl. Mod. Knowl. 219 Hookworm disease, or ankylostomiasis.
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