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Hookworm vs Whipworm - What's the difference?

hookworm | whipworm |

As nouns the difference between hookworm and whipworm

is that hookworm is any of various parasitic bloodsucking roundworms which cause disease, especially the species , having hooked mouthparts and entering their hosts by boring through the skin while whipworm is , a roundworm, causing trichuriasis when it infects a human large intestine.

hookworm

English

(wikipedia hookworm) (Ancylostoma duodenale) (Necator americanus)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of various parasitic bloodsucking roundworms which cause disease, especially the species , having hooked mouthparts and entering their hosts by boring through the skin.

    • See also

    * ancylostomiasis

    whipworm

    English

    (wikipedia whipworm) (Trichuris trichiura)

    Noun

  • , a roundworm, causing trichuriasis when it infects a human large intestine.
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 27, Jane E. Brody, Babies Know: A Little Dirt Is Good for You, New York Times citation
    • , passage=Dr. Elliott said that in Argentina, researchers found that patients with multiple sclerosis who were infected with the human whipworm had milder cases and fewer flare-ups of their disease over a period of four and a half years. }}

    Hypernyms

    * roundworm, nematode