Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Case of the Week 620

This week's case is a nice straight-forward one because - spoiler alert - we are going to have a really fun challenge from Idzi Potters next week to start off our new year. 

The following worm was found during routine colonoscopy. Identification? For 'extra credit' - which end is anterior? And is this a male or female?



10 comments:

Blaine A. Mathison said...

Very Trichy as to not be too tricky…

HB said...

It's Tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that's right on time. It's tricky...Tr-tr-tr-trichy

Eagleville said...

https://youtu.be/RidtrSCogg0
(Am I showing my age?)

Idzi P. said...

That video is hilarious!
This would be a male one, I can see its whip sticking out! Haha...

Anonymous said...

Man, everyone have said it, what’s left?
Too trichy of a tricky, shall I say
“Nada, nada, nada” per Hemingway!
Florida Fan

Old One said...

Snidley Whiplash laughed at pain

But this wormy infection caused him a new bane

When he started his heartiest laugh

He was startled by a rectal prolapse

Amenon2012 said...

Whip worm. Thin is head. Female

Anonymous said...

Of course, thin is his head
Yet he holds his gender in his curved tail.
The Romans used to say “In cauda venenum”
He holds his spicule just like a scorpion that makes all yell.
Florida Fan

TheOracle said...
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TheOracle said...


It's a marvelous Trichuris trichiura - or trichocephalus, or whipworm! Because of the presence of testes and the shape of the tail, I would suggest this is a male. The head is the thin portion, and the stichosome is clearly visible.

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