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
  • Most of the egg DNA came from parasites known to spread from human to human, such as the giant roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides, today the most common parasitic worm in humans.
    Charles Choi, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2018
  • From there, any roundworm eggs would have followed their usual playbook, releasing larva to burrow into their host’s stomach wall, Šlapeta said.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023

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