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Gongylonema(medicine)
Gongylonema ingluvicola(medicine)
Gongylonema neoplasticum(medicine)
Gongylonema pulchrum(medicine)
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Gongylonema neoplasticum (medicine) and holothurian (iou)


Gongylonema neoplasticum (medicine)


Gongylonema neoplasticum
Species parasitic in the stomach or oesophagus epithelium of various rodents, rabbits, and sheep and transmitted by coprophagous beetles; it is often associated with benign proliferations, once thought to be neoplastic, in the stomach and oesophagus of infected, malnourished rats.


holothurian (iou)



holothurian noun & adjective. M19.
[formed as HOLOTHURIA + -AN.]
Zoology.
A. noun. Any elongate, bilaterally symmetrical echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, having a leathery integument and a diffuse skeleton of calcitic spicules; a sea cucumber. M19.
b. adjective. Of or pertaining to the class Holothuroidea. L19.