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tapeworm
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  • In pain, half starved, with a tapeworm and an eye infection, he collapsed on the road to town and was taken to the infirmary by a kindly widow.†  (source)
  • If you want an analogy, just think of a tapeworm virus...one of the old kind...that's chewing up the data in your comlog...backward from the last entry.†  (source)
  • They even had their own version of the Gospels in which Jesus healed possessed people, not with miracles, but by driving parasites, such as tapeworm, out of their body.†  (source)
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  • The password's still 'tapeworm'!†  (source)
  • He covered everything from toothpaste to tapeworms and somehow made it all fit together.†  (source)
  • Or a tapeworm.†  (source)
  • He was fond of inviting them to tea; and, though vowing they never got a look in with him at the cakes and muffins, for it was the fashion to believe that his corpulence pointed to a voracious appetite, and his voracious appetite to tapeworms, they accepted his invitations with real pleasure.†  (source)
  • Hauling a bladder cyst about the size of a golfball out of the caribou's liver, I explained that this was the inactive form of a tapeworm, and that, if eaten by a carnivore, it would eventually develop into several segmented creatures about thirty feet in length, coiled neatly in the new host's intestines.†  (source)
  • At SIS-C slaughterhouses, visibly diseased animals cattle infected with measles and tapeworms, covered with abscesses were being slaughtered.†  (source)
  • He had done parasitic research all over the world; his work had led to the discovery of the Brazilian tapeworm, Taenia renzi, which he had characterized in a paper in 1953.†  (source)
  • Did anyone ever use tapeworms?†  (source)
  • Tereza took pleasure in their antics and could not help thinking (it is an idea that kept coming back to her during her two years in the country) that man is as much a parasite on the cow as the tapeworm is on man: We have sucked their udders like leeches.†  (source)
  • I saw it in the steel bridges stretching out over water; I saw it in the freeways looping over one another like tangled tapeworms.†  (source)
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