habronema

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habronema (plural habronemas)

  1. 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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