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| Domain | Definition |
Health | A genus of nematode intestinal parasites that consists of several species. A. duodenale is the common hookworm in humans. A. braziliense, A. ceylonicum, and A. caninum occur primarily in cats and dogs, but all have been known to occur in humans. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: ANCYLOSTOMA |
| Specialty definitions using "ANCYLOSTOMA": Ancylostomatoidea, Ancylostomiasis ♦ Hookworm Infections ♦ Larva Migrans. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Ancylostoma braziliense mouth parts. Hookworm, parasite. Credit: CDC. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The human hookworms include two nematode (roundworm) species, Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus. (references) | |
Ancylostoma canium, an illness caused by a particular species of dog hookworm, has been described in Australia. (references) | ||
One of the most common species, Ancylostoma duodenale (an-cy-CLO-sto-ma doe-AH-den-al), is found in southern Europe, northern Africa, northern Asia, and parts of South America. (references) | ||
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| "ANCYLOSTOMA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ANCYLOSTOMA" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ancylostoma duodenale | 14 |
ancylostoma | 9 |
ancylostoma caninum | 7 |
ancylostoma braziliense | 3 |
ancylostoma brasiliensis | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ANCYLOSTOMA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | anchylostoma duodenale (ankylostoma, hookworm), hageorm (ankylostoma, hookworm). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | ankylostomiasis (ankylostoma, hookworm), mijnworminfectie (ankylostoma, hookworm). (various references) | ||||||||||
Finnish | koukkumato (ankylostoma, hookworm), kaivosmato (ankylostoma, hookworm). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | ankylostome (ankylostoma). (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | αγκυλόστομα (ankylostoma, hookworm). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | ancylostoma duodenalis (ankylostoma, hookworm). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ancylostomaay Anquilostoma Duodenalis (ankylostoma, hookworm), anquilostoma (hookworm). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | anquilostoma duodenalis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-l-m-n-o-o-s-t-y" | |
-3 letters: coolants, octanols. | |
-4 letters: amatols, analyst, anatomy, anomaly, canolas, catalos, caymans, clamant, coastal, coolant, cytosol, lactams, octanol, sacaton, scantly, scotoma, tycoons. | |
-5 letters: alamos, alants, almost, amatol, aslant, astony, atmans, atonal, canals, canola, cantos, catalo, cayman, cloots, coalas, colons, colony, consol, contos, costal, costly, cotans, cymols, cytons, lactam, layman, macons, manats, mantas, mascon, mascot, moolas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-l-m-n-o-o-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: onomastically. | |
+3 letters: astronomically. | |
+4 letters: ancylostomiases, ancylostomiasis, compassionately, gastronomically. | |
+5 letters: monosynaptically. | |
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