habronema
English
Noun
habronema (plural habronemas)
- Any nematode of the genus Habronema.
- 1918, Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics:
- 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.
- 1922, Experiment Station Record, volume 47, United States Office of Experiment Stations:
- The house fly and habronemas of equines, Koubaud and Descazeaux
- 1922, The Philippine Agriculturist, volume 11, page 96:
- Carbon bisulphide was found effective against parasites in the upper part of the digestive tract, namely, bots, ascarids and habronemas (stomach worms).
- 1940, Libbie Henrietta Hyman, The Invertebrates: Acanthocephala, Aschelminthes, and Entoprocta, the pseudocoelomate Bilateria:
- Habronemas of carnivorous birds and mammals probably reach their definitive hosts by way of transport hosts.
- 2012, Rick Parker, Equine Science, page 360:
- 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).
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Related terms
- habronemiasis