Usually means: Tiny parasitic worm, causes enterobiasis.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. threadworm: Merriam-Webster
  2. threadworm: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. threadworm: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. threadworm: Collins English Dictionary
  5. threadworm: Vocabulary.com
  6. threadworm: Wordnik
  7. threadworm: Wiktionary
  8. threadworm: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. threadworm: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. threadworm: Dictionary.com
  11. Threadworm: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Threadworm: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. threadworm: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. threadworm: Rhymezone
  15. Threadworm: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. threadworm: FreeDictionary.org
  17. threadworm: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. threadworm: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. threadworm: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. threadworm: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. threadworm: Medical dictionary
  5. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (threadworm)

▸ noun:  A parasitic roundworm, Strongyloides stercoralis, which causes strongyloidiasis.
▸ noun:  (UK, Australia) The pinworm.

Similar:
pinworm, enterobius vermicularis, bankrupt worm, trichostrongyloid, metastrongyloid, stomach worm, tylostrongyle, cyathostomin, eelworm, protostrongylid, more...

Opposite:
roundworm, tapeworm, flatworm

Types:
pinworm, whipworm, hookworm, strongyloidiasis, ascariasis, trichinosis, enterobiasis, filariasis, more...

Phrases:
threadworm infection, abdominal threadworm, more...

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Similar:
pinworm, enterobius vermicularis, bankrupt worm, trichostrongyloid, metastrongyloid, stomach worm, tylostrongyle, cyathostomin, eelworm, protostrongylid, more...

Opposite:
roundworm, tapeworm, flatworm

Types:
pinworm, whipworm, hookworm, strongyloidiasis, ascariasis, trichinosis, enterobiasis, filariasis, more...

Phrases:
threadworm infection, abdominal threadworm, more...



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