How to Use roundworm in a Sentence

roundworm

noun

• The glowing roundworm from Chalfie’s lab made the cover of Science in 1994.
  — Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, Discover Magazine, 17 July 2011
• When a host fly bites a deer, roundworm larvae travel from the mouthparts of the fly into a deer’s bloodstream.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 29 Feb. 2024
• And researchers showed one species of roundworm was attracted to some VOCs from cancer.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2023
• The 64 tiny roundworm eggs mixed in with the remains of the Pleistocene puma’s last meal can tell us something about how parasites and their hosts have co-evolved over the last few thousand years.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 28 Aug. 2019
• When a nematode wriggles around a petri dish, what’s going on inside a tiny roundworm’s even tinier brain?
  — Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2023
• Why such a high prevalence of roundworm and whipworm infections?
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2022
• Raccoons can carry rabies and roundworm, both of which are harmful to humans.
  — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
• The disease is caused by nematodes, or microscopic roundworms, that are present in buds over the winter.
  — Alysa Guffey, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2023
• The worms in the experiments showed a marked preference for the roundworm equivalent of potato chips or ice cream—high-calorie junk food.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2023
• The worm in this case is Strongyloides stercoralis, a nematode or roundworm known to infect people.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 22 Apr. 2022
• Petrified roundworm and whipworm eggs suggest that Roman-era and late medieval Brits were most likely to be plagued with these pests.
  — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 21 June 2022
• Sand from five out of nine backyard sandboxes across the country test positive for the E. coli bacteria and seven for two types of roundworm eggs.
  — Good Housekeeping, 31 Oct. 2015
• The same held true for the T-maze experiments under normal conditions, i.e., roundworms that had not been dosed with anandamide.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2023
• Fitch is an author of the new study published in the journal Current Biology that documents an exception to that trend: the roundworm Diploscapter pachys.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 19 Oct. 2017
• Parvovirus, hookworms and roundworms can be left in the soil and can be transmitted to people and other animals through contact with the infected soil.
  — Cathy M. Rosenthal, ExpressNews.com, 6 Mar. 2020
• Plants, roundworms, flatworms and insects use RNA to carry signals through their tissues, and perhaps further.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Nov. 2013
• This is the case in trioecious nematodes, a type of roundworm with three sexes: male, female and hermaphrodite.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018
• The only complete connectome to date is that of the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, which contains a mere 302 neurons.
  — Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 22 Jan. 2020
• Sadly, adding soil won’t stop root knot nematodes, a parasitic roundworm.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2022
• However, in the early 1990s, researchers reported the first studies identifying genes that were able to extend the lifespan of a small roundworm.
  — Aditi Gurkar, The Conversation, 15 Mar. 2023
• Mebendazole is an antiparisitc drug developed in 1972 to treat infections from pinworms, hookworms, roundworms and the like.
  — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 20 July 2017
• In addition, roundworms equally inhabited the meadow and the lawn.
  — Jesse Greenspan, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2023
• But while the discovery made headlines for the astounding age of the frozen worms, researchers say the roundworms could also teach us something about surviving climate change - as our planet endures some of the hottest days on record.
  — Doc Louallen, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2023
• Each lesion contained a single larva that was identified as B. procyonis, the raccoon roundworm that is rarely found in the human brain.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2012
• These plant parasites are not the same roundworms as the filarial nematodes that infect the human body, spread diseases, and wreak havoc on the immune system.
  — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 1 July 2018
• That’s what a team of biologists has observed in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans.
  — Christopher Crockett, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2013
• These plant parasites are NOT the same roundworms as the filarial nematodes, that infect the human body, spread diseases and cause havok on the immune system.
  — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 1 Mar. 2017
• The roundworm, Ophidascaris robertsi, normally infects snakes, so the discovery was quite a shock to the neurosurgeon who pulled the wriggling creature from the patient’s head.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
• The pair examined mutant genes in this roundworm, trying to better understand their function.
  — Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
• In addition to risks of hookworms and roundworms, pets are also vulnerable to whipworm, giardia and coccidia.
  — Julia Wuerz, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024