Meanings
- not comparableraremedicineOf a disease or parasite, carried or transmitted by worms.
Schistosomiasis is a wormborne parasite endemic to wetlands that is passed between humans and snails that live on the banks of the Nile […]
2016 September 19, Scott A J Johnson, Why Did Ancient Civilizations Fail?, Routledge, →ISBN2 more examples
The ravages of the white man's diseases, particularly tuberculosis and syphilis, the tropical diseases of malaria, sleeping sickness, typhus and the wormborne (helminthiasis) diseases, as well as the conditions caused by nutritional deficiencies, prevent the efficient application of the available labour force.
1951, International Journal, volumes 6-7, Canadian Institute of International Affairs, page 155Vermifuges expelled the worms and stopped intestinal bleeding, but hematologic responses were uneven and subject to relapses attributed to obscure wormborne toxicities.
1995 January 1, National Academy of Sciences, Biographical Memoirs: Volume 67, National Academies Press, →ISBN, page 26
Origin
- Proto-Germanic*wurmiz
- Proto-West Germanic*wurmi
- Old Englishwyrm
- Middle Englishworm
- Englishworm
- Englishwormborne
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