Medical Dictionary

1worm

noun \ˈwərm\

Medical Definition of WORM

1
:  any of various relatively small elongated usually naked and soft-bodied parasitic animals (as of the phylum Platyhelminthes)
2
:  helminthiasis—usually used in plural <a dog with worms>
worm·like \-ˌlīk\ adjective
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