habronema

plural habronemas

1. Any nematode of the genus Habronema.

   The house fly and habronemas of equines, Koubaud and Descazeaux

   1922, Experiment Station Record, volume 47, United States Office of Experiment Stations

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   The identification of the parasites is at present impossible, but the spinous-tipped tail indicates that they correspond to certain stages of one of the spiruroidea, and so most probably of a habronema; whether Habronema muscæ, microstoma, or megastoma must be reserved for future experiments.

   1918, Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics

   Carbon bisulphide was found effective against parasites in the upper part of the digestive tract, namely, bots, ascarids and habronemas (stomach worms).

   1922, The Philippine Agriculturist, volume 11, page 96

   Habronemas of carnivorous birds and mammals probably reach their definitive hosts by way of transport hosts.

   1940, Libbie Henrietta Hyman, The Invertebrates: Acanthocephala, Aschelminthes, and Entoprocta, the pseudocoelomate Bilateria

   The habronemas, which consist of Habronema muscae, H. majus, and H. megastoma (Draschia megastoma), are the equine stomach worms that cause two rather distinct diseases in horses: gastric and cutaneous habronemiasis (a skin disease caused in part by the larvae).

   2012, Rick Parker, Equine Science, page 360