hookworm

As nouns the difference between hookworm and earthworms

is that hookworm is any of various parasitic bloodsucking roundworms which cause disease, especially the species species: Ancylostoma duodenale and species: Necator americanus, having hooked mouthparts and entering their hosts by boring through the skin while earthworms is plural of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between hookworm and threadworm

is that hookworm is any of various parasitic bloodsucking roundworms which cause disease, especially the species species: Ancylostoma duodenale and species: Necator americanus, having hooked mouthparts and entering their hosts by boring through the skin while threadworm is a parasitic roundworm, Strongyloides stercoralis, which causes strongyloidiasis.

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.

As nouns the difference between bookworm and hookworm

is that bookworm is any of various insects that infest books while hookworm is any of various parasitic bloodsucking roundworms which cause disease, especially the species species: Ancylostoma duodenale and species: Necator americanus, having hooked mouthparts and entering their hosts by boring through the skin.

As nouns the difference between tapeworm and hookworm

is that tapeworm is any parasitical worm of the class Cestoda, which infest the intestines of animals, including humans, often infecting different host species during their life cycle while hookworm is any of various parasitic bloodsucking roundworms which cause disease, especially the species species: Ancylostoma duodenale and species: Necator americanus, having hooked mouthparts and entering their hosts by boring through the skin.

As nouns the difference between hookworm and amoscanate

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 amoscanate is an experimental anthelmintic agent of the arylisothiocyanate class, found to be highly effective in animals against hookworms and the four major species of schistosomes, but possibly hepatotoxic.