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tapeworms

n. (plural of tapeworm English)

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Hookworms, tapeworms, pinworms, typhoid, cholera, dysentery, diarrhoea, hepatitis, salmonella and dozens of other diseases have been attributed to the house fly.

They can carry murine typhus and several types of tapeworms, so it's a great idea to handle dead rodents with gloves and bury the bodies or put them in a sealed plastic bag.

My intestines are on as intimate terms with their tapeworms as they are with my mouth, my asshole, and my other organs.

Strands of alien DNA unfurl themselves in our brains, just as tapeworms unfurl themselves in our guts.

My body and home are always infested -- whether by cockroaches and tapeworms, or by Martians and poltergeists.

The churning of gastric secretions and the steady ventilation of lungs are incomprehensible to the simple brains of tapeworms, but they serve the purpose of keeping the humans alive and provide the environment the worms live in.

Like the fox, and then Singer, he was now the host of this parasitic creature, this leech that he imagined to be similar to the tapeworms that occasionally got into the systems of the Szgany.

Then again, the tapeworms Radu had seen were slender, many-sectioned creatures.