Plural of coelelminth; parasitic worms that inhabit body cavities of hosts.
From coelelminth with the Greek plural ending -es, following standard biological nomenclature for parasite groupings.
Medical parasitologists discovered that different worms colonize different body regions—some gut worms, some tissue worms, some cavity worms—and this vocabulary let them communicate precisely about where infections lurked without confusion.
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