helminthologyn.
/hɛlmɪnˈθɒlədʒi/ That branch of zoology, or of medical science, which treats of helminths.
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the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [noun] > branches dealing with specific diseases
pyretology1665
helminthology1813
syphilography1837
syphilidology1849
syphilology1854
herpetology1857
typhlology1872
inebriism1886
phthisiology1893
venereology1894
phthisiotherapeutics1899
malariology1925
rheumatology1936
bariatrics1963
the world > animals > zoology > study of specific types of animal > [noun] > specific worms
helminthology1813
nematology1914
1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia Helminthology,..the doctrine or natural study of worms.
1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 265 (note) We shall find them to be vague, carelessly observed, and generally adduced by persons unacquainted with helminthology.
1864 T. S. Cobbold (title) Entozoa: an Introduction to the Study of Helminthology, with reference more particularly to the Internal Parasites of Man.
Derivatives
helminthoˈlogic adj.
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the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [adjective] > dealing with specific diseases
helminthologic1828
helminthological1862
phthisiological1868
rheumatological1936
venereological1961
the world > animals > zoology > study of specific types of animal > [adjective] > specific worms
helminthologic1828
helminthological1862
nematological1926
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Helminthologic, Helminthological.
helminthoˈlogical adj. pertaining to helminthology.
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the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [adjective] > dealing with specific diseases
helminthologic1828
helminthological1862
phthisiological1868
rheumatological1936
venereological1961
the world > animals > zoology > study of specific types of animal > [adjective] > specific worms
helminthologic1828
helminthological1862
nematological1926
1862 T. S. Cobbold in Intellectual Observer No. 1. 25 Our recent helminthological discoveries.
helminˈthologist n. one versed in helminthology.
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helminthologist1822
nematologist1919
1822 J. Fleming Philos. Zool. II. 416 Few parts of either England or Scotland have been surveyed by the eye of the helminthologist.
1876 P. J. Van Beneden Animal Parasites & Messmates Introd. All helminthologists, with few exceptions, looked upon worms in the interior of the body as formed without parents in the same organs which they occupy.
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