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n. 1 A parasitic organism that afflicts dogs. 2 The condition caused by this organism.
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Heartworm is an album by the Irish rock group Whipping Boy, released on November 1, 1995 on Columbia Records. It was recorded between September and November 1994 in Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin. On March 17th 2013, Heartworm topped Phantom FM's poll of the top 50 Irish albums of all time.
Usage examples of "heartworm".
This powerful microscope enabled me for the first time to do stool exams to check the dogs for intestinal parasites and conduct blood counts and heartworm tests.
Much to my surprise, more than 80 percent of our dogs tested positive for heartworms.
Instead, I treated 440 of our war dogs for heartworm in 1945 and 1946 before they could be returned to their owners after the war.
Between the strain of this overwork and the heartworms, an increasingly large percentage of the dogs were incapacitated at any given time.
I examined the dogs as they returned and found that all of them were heavily infested with hookworms and heartworms, as expected.
By feeding the dogs fresh raw beef supplemented with iron pills, their blood counts soon returned to normal and I began the arduous task of treating them for heartworm.
Four hundred and forty war dogs were treated successfully for heartworm in 1945 and 1946.