| Ascaris lumbricoides |
common roundworm: intestinal parasite of humans and pigs
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| as- |
arsenic: a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar American Samoa: a United States territory on the eastern part of the island of Samoa equally: to the same degree (often followed by `as'); "they were equally beautiful"; "birds were singing and the child sang as sweetly"; "sang as sweetly as a nightingale"; "he is every bit as mean as she is"
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| ascend |
travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope" go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly" become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King's death" go along towards (a river's) source; "The boat ascended the Delaware" slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill" rise: come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"
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| asphyxiate |
smother: deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing; "Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow"; "The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor" suffocate: impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; "The foul air was slowly suffocating the children" suffocate: be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen; "The child suffocated under the pillow"
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| astroglia |
tissue consisting of large stellate neuroglial cells
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