Usually means: Parasitic worm infecting intestines, anemia.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. hookworm: Merriam-Webster
  2. hookworm: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hookworm: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hookworm: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hookworm: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hookworm, hookworm: Wordnik
  7. hookworm: Wiktionary
  8. hookworm: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. hookworm: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. hookworm: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. hookworm: Dictionary.com
  12. Hookworm: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. hookworm: Rhymezone
  14. hookworm: FreeDictionary.org
  15. hookworm: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. hookworm: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hookworm: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. hookworm: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Hookworm: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hookworm: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  6. hookworm: Medical dictionary
  7. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  8. Hookworm: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (countable) Any of various parasitic bloodsucking roundworms which cause disease, especially the species Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, having hooked mouthparts and entering their hosts by boring through the skin.
noun:  (metonymically, uncountable) Infection with one of these parasites.

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