Definition of "threadworm" []

• See pinworm. (noun)

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• "This medicine works against hookworm, whipworm, roundworm, pinworm (threadworm), and another worm called Strongyloides."
• "Th. Boveri, studying the development of a threadworm, made the interesting discovery that this differentiation began at the first division."
• "The reader may well express doubt as to whether what has been demonstrated for the threadworm can be demonstrated for the higher animals, including man."