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n. - Any of various organisms dependent on others for nourishment that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms).

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  • An "entozoon" seems to the practical man a foolish, imaginary creature.
  • When you know the entozoon you can dig him out and save the sheep's life.
  • The entozoon of course gives rise to a variety of stale and melancholy jokes about the early bird, the worm that dieth not, and so forth.
  • 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...
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