HELMINTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does helminth mean? 

• HELMINTH (noun)
  The noun HELMINTH has 1 sense:

1. worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes

  Familiarity information: HELMINTH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HELMINTH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

helminth; parasitic worm

Hypernyms ("helminth" is a kind of...):

worm (any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae)

Holonyms ("helminth" is a member of...):

class Trematoda; Trematoda (parasitic flatworms (including flukes))

Cestoda; class Cestoda (tapeworms)

Aschelminthes; Nematoda; phylum Aschelminthes; phylum Nematoda (unsegmented worms: roundworms; threadworms; eelworms)

 Context examples 

This eventually causes the helminths death.

(Mebendazole, NCI Thesaurus)

Albendazole interferes with the reproduction and survival of helminths by inhibiting the formation of microtubules from tubulin.

(Albendazole, NCI Thesaurus)

A class of unsegmented helminths with fundamental bilateral symmetry and secondary triradiate symmetry of the oral and esophageal structures.

(Nematoda, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Understanding bovine TB-helminth coinfection in African buffalo is particularly relevant for human health because helminths are known to influence human immune responses to TB.

(Treatment for parasitic worms helps animals survive infectious diseases--and spread them, NSF)

This results in a depletion of glycogen stores and leads to reduced formation of ATP required for survival and reproduction of the helminth.

(Mebendazole, NCI Thesaurus)

Half the buffalo received treatment for helminths; the rest were left untreated as a control group.

(Treatment for parasitic worms helps animals survive infectious diseases--and spread them, NSF)

Mebendazole interferes with the reproduction and survival of helminths by inhibiting the formation of their cytoplasmic microtubules, thereby selectively and irreversibly blocking glucose uptake.

(Mebendazole, NCI Thesaurus)