See Also: Echinococcus(medicine)
Echinococcus(health)
echinococcus(dictionary)
echinococcus cyst(medicine)
echinococcus disease(medicine)

cursitor (iou) and echinococcus (iou)


cursitor (iou)



cursitor noun. E16.
[Legal Anglo-Norman coursetour from medieval Latin cursitor, from cursus COURSE noun1.]
Each of twenty-four officers of the Court of Chancery who until 1835 made out all the common or routine writs for their respective counties. obsolete exc. Hist. E16.
A tramp, a vagabond. M16-E18.
A courier. L16-M17.
Comb.: Cursitor Baron a baron of the former Court of Exchequer appointed for fiscal rather than legal expertise.

echinococcus (iou)



echinococcus noun. . M19.
[mod. Latin Echinococcus (see below), formed as ECHINO- + Greek kokkos seed, grain.]
A tapeworm (formerly spec., an encysted larval form) of the genus Echinococcus, members of which occur as adults in the intestines of dogs, wolves, etc., and as larval hydatid cysts in sheep and Other animals, and sometimes humans.
echinococcosis noun (Medicine) hydatid disease caused by echinococci E20.