heartwormn.
/ˈhɑːtwəːm/, U.S. /ˈhɑrtˌwərm/ΚΠ
1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 266 Heart wormes, chewe it [sc. galingale] and swallow it downe.
1701 tr. N. Andry Acct. Breeding Worms in Human Bodies iv. 86 The Cardiack or Heart-worms, occasion Tremblings, Swoonings, and the Lunatick Disease, falsely imputed to the Moon.
2. Chiefly poetic. A person or thing imagined as eating into or penetrating the heart in the manner of a worm.
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1803 R. Polwhele Warlike Ode Faithful Cornwall 9 Miscreant! thy conscience, to consume thee, lives; The heart-worm, that no respite gives!
a1843 W. Allston Lect. Art, & Poems (1850) 297 [Sleep] doth oft..bid misery gaunt be gay, And hate, that cold heart-worm, make powerless to harm.
1888 J. S. Stallybrass tr. J. Grimm Teutonic Mythol. IV. 1660 The miser's heart-worm.
1959 Listener 5 Nov. 796/1 The professional intimate, the confidential heart-worm with the hypodermic technique, is one of the horrors of television.
2009 J. E. Simonds Waves from Time-zoned Brain 73 The men who married small town girls And never left, and others who left With a heart-worm of panic and a lifetime to pay.
3. Chiefly U.S. Any of various noctuid moth caterpillars which bore into the pith of stems or into other internal parts of plants, and which are often agricultural pests, esp. the caterpillar of the stalk borer moth, Papaipema nebris; (as a mass noun) such caterpillars collectively; (occasionally also) any of these moths. Now rare.
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1841 Farmers’ Cabinet 15 Sept. 69/1 Our Indian-corn is equally beset with heart-worm, wire-worm, cut-worm, &c., and the rye also about equally precarious.
1859 A. Watson Amer. Home Garden 109 Heart-worm... hatched in, or entering the side of the corn-plant, it eats into it when from three to nine inches high.
1905 A. L. Quaintance & C. T. Brues Cotton Bollworm (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 13 In southern New Jersey..the larvæ [of Heliothis obsoleta Fab.] are known to tomato growers as heart worms.
1919 Crop & Livestock Rep. (Pennsylvania Dept. Agric.) No. 44 6 Wheat and rye never looked better but certain areas are showing considerable yellow. Some impute it to fly and others claim there is a little heart worm working on the plants.
1939 H. Osborn & D. J. Knull Meadow & Pasture Insects 226 The ‘lined stalk borer’ or ‘Heart worm,’ Oligia fractilinea.
4. Veterinary Medicine. A minute parasitic nematode worm of the genus Dirofilaria, esp. D. immitis, which typically infests the pulmonary blood vessels and heart of carnivorous mammals, and is transmitted by mosquito bite; (also) the disease caused by this.Occurrence of Dirofilaria in the human heart has been recorded, but is extremely rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of animals generally > [noun] > parasitic
wormc1000
botc1465
canker1753
heartworm1877
strongylosis1883
surra1883
psorospermosis1894
nagana1895
tsetse-fly disease1895
babesiasis1907
babesiosis1907
strike1932
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Nemathelminthes > [noun] > class Nematoda > member of
roundworm1837
nematode1856
nematoid1865
bloodworm1872
heartworm1877
rhabdonema1886
palisade worm1888
kidney worm1893
tunnel-worm1895
nema1917
rhabditoid1937
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [noun] > member of (worm) > parasitic or harmful > to animals
sting-worm1577
felter1607
needle-worma1750
stag-worm1753
heartworm1877
1877 P. Manson Rep. Hæmatozoa in Med. Rep. China (Statist. Dept. Inspectorate Gen. Customs) No. 13. 13 The heart-worm, variously named Filaria canis cordis or Filaria immitis.
1913 H. Leeney Animal Doctor ii. 60 An active tubercle, or the heart worm (filaria immitis), may give rise to acute inflammation.
1965 E. J. L. Soulsby Textbk. Vet. Clin. Pathol. I. iv. 100 Dirofilaria immitis is the heartworm and is parasitic in the..dog, fox, wolf and various other wild carnivores.
1979 Arkansas Farm Res. 28 8/3 Heartworm of dogs is a constant threat to canines in east Arkansas.
2004 Dog & Kennel Aug. 16/1 Canine heartworm disease is a serious and life-threatening parasitic condition in which immature heartworms..migrate to the pet's heart and lungs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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