whipworm

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any of the genus Trichuris of roundworms that infect certain mammals
2. isim Trichuris trichiura, a roundworm, causing trichuriasis when it infects a human large intestine.

   “Dr. Elliott said that in Argentina, researchers found that patients with multiple sclerosis who were infected with the human whipworm had milder cases and fewer flare-ups of their disease over a period of four and a half years.”

3. isim Trichuriasis, infection by members of the genus Trichuris.