Plural of ascarid; multiple parasitic roundworms of the family Ascaridae.
Plural form of 'ascarid,' following the Greek/Latin plural convention. The term refers to multiple individual ascarid worms.
In heavy ascarid infections, people have described coughing up literal handfuls of worms—it's disgusting but it actually helped doctors understand these parasites before modern microscopy, as patients could literally show their doctors what was infecting them.
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