oxyuris
noun
oxy·uris
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Medical Definition of oxyuris
1
capitalized
: a genus (the type of the family Oxyuridae) of parasitic nematodes with a long slender tail and a well-developed posterior pharyngeal enlargement
2
: any nematode worm of the genus Oxyuris or a related genus (as Enterobius) : pinworm