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(obsolete) Any of various microscopic parasitic worms previously classified together under the grouping Entozoa..
The discovery that a disorder known as "the staggers," of which many thousands of sheep have died annually, is caused by an entozoon which presses on the brain, and that if the creature is extracted through the softened place in the skull which marks its position, the sheep usually recovers, is another debt which agriculture owes to biology.
Use entozoon when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Entozoon means (obsolete) Any of various microscopic parasitic worms previously classified together under the grouping Entozoa..
Common synonyms include endoparasite, entozoan, entozoa, entoparasite.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The discovery that a disorder known as "the staggers," of which many thousands of sheep have died annually, is caused by an entozoon which presses on the brain, and that if the creature is extracted through the softened place in the skull which marks its position, the sheep usually recovers, is another debt which agriculture owes to biology.
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