Any animal with a long, pipe-like body and no limbs

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Two maggots. Etching.

Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.

Adult worms of toxocara cati (from a cat).

A surgeon extracting a guinea worm from a man's leg, in the background is a similar scene after a successful operation, a surgeon is holding a long worm. Photograph of a halftone after an engraving by J. Luyken.

Horse intestine with multiple attached parasitic worms

Benzimidazole crystals

Egg of toxocara canis (unsegmented)

Clove tree (Syzygium aromaticum): flowering and fruiting stem with cloves and parasitic worm. Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1808, after J. Ihle.

A lung worm of python (Porocephalus moniliformis). Coloured drawing by A.J.E. Terzi.

Threadworms (Enterobius vermicularis) in the villi of the gut

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Worms

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Images referencing Worms

Works from the collections

Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.

Egg of toxocara canis (unsegmented)

Threadworms (Enterobius vermicularis) in the villi of the gut

A surgeon extracting a guinea worm from a man's leg, in the background is a similar scene after a successful operation, a surgeon is holding a long worm. Photograph of a halftone after an engraving by J. Luyken.

Benzimidazole crystals

Worms

Images from the collections

Images referencing Worms

Works from the collections

Parasites: a parasitical worm, shown much enlarged, with its hosts. Gouache painting by J. Svoboda after L.W. Sambon.

Egg of toxocara canis (unsegmented)

Threadworms (Enterobius vermicularis) in the villi of the gut

A surgeon extracting a guinea worm from a man's leg, in the background is a similar scene after a successful operation, a surgeon is holding a long worm. Photograph of a halftone after an engraving by J. Luyken.

Benzimidazole crystals

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