Meanings
nounlumbric (plural lumbrics)
plural lumbrics
- obsoletebiologyAn intestinal parasitic worm.
The next day, while at stool, the patient discharged a lumbrics followed by the expulsion of two more, during the day, without faecal discharge ; treatment continued. The third day, another lumbric was expelled; the fourth, two others, &c, in all, ten lumbrics.
1859 July, William Farell, “Santonine in Verminous Affections”, in The Southern Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 15, page 472
Origin
- Latinlumbricus
- Englishlumbric
Latin lumbricus.
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