toxocaran.
/tɒksəʊˈkarə/ Veterinary Medicine.
1. A nematode worm of the genus of this name, which includes species parasitic in cats and dogs; also in plural sense.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Nemathelminthes > [noun] > class Nematoda > member of genus Toxocara
toxocara1940
1940 A. C. Chandler Introd. Parasitol. (ed. 5) xxii. 388 Toxocara males have a small finger-like process at the tip of the tail.
1962 Lancet 6 Jan. 35/1 Duguid has now recorded 28 cases of children with retinal granuloma endophthalmitis due to toxocara.
1968 New Scientist 4 Apr. 41/1 The nematode is toxocara, of which there are two important species.
2. = toxocariasis n. at Derivatives.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > parasitic disorders > [noun] > intestinal worms
ascariasis1888
trichuriasis1921
toxocariasis1930
toxocara1976
1976 Milton Keynes Express 16 July 1/2 Toxocara, a ‘rare and horrific’ disease caught from dog-dirt, has infected a Bletchley boy.
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toxoˈcaral adj.
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toxocaral1968
1968 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 16 Mar. 677/2 Persistent eosinophilia, hepatomegaly, choroiditis, and pulmonary infiltration are mentioned together or separately as indicating possible toxocaral infection.
1981 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 18 July 192/1 A case of arthritis and arthralgia associated with toxocaral infestation.
toxocaˈriasis n. [-iasis suffix] infection with Toxocara nematodes.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > parasitic disorders > [noun] > intestinal worms
ascariasis1888
trichuriasis1921
toxocariasis1930
toxocara1976
1930 E. C. Faust Human Helminthol. Index 613/2 Toxocariasis.
1966 Arch. Dis. in Childhood XLI. 222/1 The diagnosis of toxocariasis is essentially a clinical one.
1976 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 19 June 1486/2 Of human toxocariasis virtually nothing was known until about 12 years ago.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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