Trichurisn.
/trɪˈkjʊərɪs/ Zoology and Medicine.
A nematode worm of the genus of this name, which comprises filamentous worms (whipworms) several centimetres long that are intestinal parasites of man and higher animals.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Nemathelminthes > [noun] > class Nematoda > family Trichostrongylidae > genus Trichocephalus or Trichuris > member of
Trichuris1807
whip-worm1875
1799 Mem. Med. Soc. London V. 226 It is now five years since I first discovered a new species of worm..but it was not till lately that I found that the same worm was first mentioned by Roederer, in the year 1760... By him it was first called Trichuris, and under that name I have described it.]
1807 R. Morris & J. Kendrick Edinb. Med. & Physical Dict. II Dr. Hooper has seen upwards of twenty trichurides in some fæces of a child of six years old.
1929 E. R. Stitt Diagnostics & Treatm. Tropical Dis. (ed. 5) xlii. 517 Of the cosmopolitan round worms Ascaris and Trichuris are the most common.
1951 P. Kourí in R. B. H. Gradwohl et al. Clin. Tropical Med. xxxvii. 842 A great number of Trichuris were found attached to the prolapsed and congested [rectal] mucosa.
1962 Lancet 29 Dec. 1360/2 Only 17% were found to be free from intestinal parasites, of which trichuris (in 72%) and ascaris (23%) were common.
1977 Schmidt & Roberts Foundations Parasitol. xxiii. 421/1 (caption) A male Trichuris. Note the slender anterior end and the stout posterior end.
Derivatives
trichuˈriasis n. [-iasis suffix] infection with such worms, which in man may be inapparent but can cause diarrhoea and other symptoms.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > parasitic disorders > [noun] > intestinal worms
ascariasis1888
trichuriasis1921
toxocariasis1930
toxocara1976
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of bowels or intestines > [noun] > infestation by parasites
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
1921 Amer. Jrnl. Tropical Med. 1 375 (heading) The treatment of trichuriasis with leche de higueron.
1970 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. II. xix. 29/2 All these species [of worms] are cosmopolitan, though ascariasis and trichuriasis are probably less common in Britain than they used to be.
1981 M. Cheesbrough Med. Lab. Man. Tropical Countries I. xxi. 266/1 The laboratory diagnosis of trichuriasis is by finding the characteristic eggs in stool specimens.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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