What's the difference between maggot and worm?

Maggot


Definition:

  • (n.) The footless larva of any fly. See Larval.
  • (n.) A whim; an odd fancy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And lest there be any remaining doubt, a forensic expert on maggots – such people do exist – testified that the theory of "semen-destroying maggots" was balderdash.
  • (2) Very fresh.” But he’s much more excited about another, hidden ingredient: fat extracted from the larvae of black soldier flies (or, to put it less delicately, maggot fat).
  • (3) We describe the indications for use, materials and methods for the rearing of sterile larvae, the modes of action, and the complications of maggot debridement.
  • (4) The catch is that the wine has been spiked with an extinguished cigarette, bogies, phlegm, piss and maggots; Ryle tackles it with vigour.
  • (5) Squeaky-clean Leona Lewis has covered Trent Reznor's hara-kiri-themed treatise Hurt, Beyoncé pre-empted Ke$ha on last year's Rather Die Young, and the Lynchian pretend-we're-dead poise of Lana "Born To Die" Del Rey couldn't be more cadaver chic if she started shaking with rigor mortis, maggots spilling from her eyeballs.
  • (6) Ed played [Funkadelic's] Maggot Brain ; we're excited about the new Four Tet single.
  • (7) In this study, maggots, living material, are proposed as a new medium of investigation in forensic medicine.
  • (8) The case reports deal with 2 cases in which changes due to damage by maggots primarily gave the impression of gunshot-wounds.
  • (9) A sk Becky Hope if she ever feels shocked by what she sees in her work in child protection – the welts on backs, broken limbs, the maggots in cots – and she seems nonplussed.
  • (10) A case is described of a 79-year-old man in whom a gangrenous toe was invaded by maggots of the flesh fly Parasarcophaga argyrostoma.
  • (11) Conservative management by packing the nose with a chloroform and turpentine (1:4) mixture followed by manual removal of the dead maggots is an effective method.
  • (12) A cuterebrid maggot generally causes a single furuncular nodule.
  • (13) To investigate the relationship between immature (maggot) house flies, Musca domestica, and bacteria, we compared the development of sterile first-instar maggots in each of 10 pure blood agar cultures of bacteria with growth on sterile blood agar (negative control) and on standard house fly rearing medium (positive control).
  • (14) Female parasitoid flies of the genus Ormia must find a specific cricket host on which to deposit their parasitic maggots.
  • (15) The man handed me a sachet of yeasty smelling flakes and I sprinkled it over the ignorant maggots.
  • (16) What, after all, do a majority of votes matter, when your opponent has described you to history as a "mangy maggot", " the old desiccated coconut ", "araldited to the seat" and a "dead carcass, swinging in the breeze"?
  • (17) However, when the posterior end of the larva was recovered from the unsectioned portion of the appendix, it was identified as a maggot of the genus Sarcophaga.
  • (18) Over the course of it the prosecution tried to explain away the lack of any evidence of sexual intercourse or rape on Crystal's body by speculating that "semen-destroying maggots" had been at work.
  • (19) In each case, migration of the maggot through the subretinal space produced widespread ophthalmoscopic and fluorescein angiographic changes that are believed to be pathognomonic of subretinal ophthalmomyiasis.
  • (20) In special conditions, the damage by maggots can take on the appearance of bullet holes.

Worm


Definition:

  • (n.) A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.
  • (n.) Any small creeping animal or reptile, either entirely without feet, or with very short ones, including a great variety of animals; as, an earthworm; the blindworm.
  • (n.) Any helminth; an entozoon.
  • (n.) Any annelid.
  • (n.) An insect larva.
  • (n.) Same as Vermes.
  • (n.) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse.
  • (n.) A being debased and despised.
  • (n.) Anything spiral, vermiculated, or resembling a worm
  • (n.) The thread of a screw.
  • (n.) A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
  • (n.) A certain muscular band in the tongue of some animals, as the dog; the lytta. See Lytta.
  • (n.) The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to economize space. See Illust. of Still.
  • (n.) A short revolving screw, the threads of which drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel by gearing into its teeth or cogs. See Illust. of Worm gearing, below.
  • (v. i.) To work slowly, gradually, and secretly.
  • (v. t.) To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; -- often followed by out.
  • (v. t.) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm. See Worm, n. 5 (b).
  • (n.) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of, as a dog, for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw. The operation was formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
  • (n.) To wind rope, yarn, or other material, spirally round, between the strands of, as a cable; to wind with spun yarn, as a small rope.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Other filarial worms which are known to occur in the RSA are discussed.
  • (2) The drugs were moderately potent inhibitors of both E. electricus and C. elegans acetylcholinesterase but at concentrations too high to account for their abilities to contract cut worms.
  • (3) The sectioned worm tissues from each developmental stage were embedded in Lowicryl HM 20 medium, stained with infected serum IgG and protein A gold complex (particle size: 12 nm) and observed by electron microscopy.
  • (4) glp-4(bn2ts) mutant worms raised at the restrictive temperature contain approximately 12 germ nuclei, in contrast to the 700-1000 present in wild-type adults.
  • (5) Fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-ricin exhibited binding to schistosomula and adult worms, but not to cercariae or to freshly transformed schistosomula.
  • (6) Sera from S. mansoni-infected patients with a high specificity for the diagnostic S. mansoni-antigen cross-reacted with a corresponding component also in S. japonicum worms.
  • (7) To understand mechanisms involved in sex-specific gene expression in Schistosoma mansoni, a cDNA (fs800) was isolated that hybridized to an 800 nucleotide mRNA present in high levels only in mature female worms.
  • (8) Three freeze-thaw cycles released a large proportion (50% to 60%) of the TCA-precipitable radioactivity from the worms.
  • (9) Antigen inhibition studies showed low and high levels of cross-reactivity with anti-worm and anti-egg antibodies, respectively, derived from both Chinese and Philippine patients.
  • (10) Only eosinophils adhered to 2 h newborn worms and only macrophages to 20 h ones.
  • (11) Worms had invaded the bile duct in 51 patients, the pancreatic duct in four and both ducts in four.
  • (12) The number of ovarian balls rises to about 6300 per worm, with the maximum being attained more rapidly in unfertilized than in fertilized females.
  • (13) Or perhaps the "mad cow"-fuelled beef war in the late 1990s, when France maintained its ban on British beef for three long years after the rest of the EU had lifted it, prompting the Sun to publish a special edition in French portraying then president Jacques Chirac as a worm.
  • (14) Three bulls selected for high faecal worm egg counts and three bulls selected for low faecal worm egg counts were mated to Africander-Hereford cross cows.
  • (15) Among 30 villagers who were treated, 4 (13.3%) passed this species with an average of 2.5 worms per infection.
  • (16) Successful tests were carried out on 84 farms and 68% of these had resistant worms present.
  • (17) A higher retention rate of intestinal adult worms was observed in hydrocortisone-treated mice.
  • (18) No evidence was obtained for the involvement of monoamine oxidases in the metabolism of 5-HT in these filarial worms.
  • (19) Radiocarbons from glucosamine and leucine were incorporated into tissue glycogen of female worms much less than glucose.
  • (20) The heads were examined for adult and larval meningeal worms (Parelaphostrongylus tenuis) by physical examination of the brain surfaces, and the Baermann technique, respectively, and for ear mites by examination of ear scrapings.