lumbric

English

Etymology

Latin lumbricus.

Noun

lumbric (plural lumbrics)

1. (zoology, obsolete) An intestinal parasitic worm.
   • 1859 July, William Farell, “Santonine in Verminous Affections”, in The Southern Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 15, page 472:

     The next day, while at stool, the patient discharged a lumbrics followed by the expulsion of two more, during the day, without faecal discharge ; treatment continued. The third day, another lumbric was expelled; the fourth, two others, &c, in all, ten lumbrics.

References

• “lumbric”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.