entozoon

English

Noun

entozoon (plural entozoa or entozoons)

  1. (obsolete) Any of various microscopic parasitic worms previously classified together under the grouping Entozoa.
    • 1903, Herbert Spencer, Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects‎[1]:
      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.

Derived terms

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈentɔzɔɔn]

Noun

entozoon n

  1. entozoon

Declension

Declension of entozoon
(pattern mesto, of Greek origin ending with -on)
singularplural
nominativeentozoonentozoá
genitiveentozoaentozoí
dativeentozouentozoám
accusativeentozoonentozoá
locativeentozoeentozoách
instrumentalentozoomentozoami

Further reading

  • “entozoon”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025
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