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Are hookworms so named because their ends are shaped like hooks?

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Are hookworms so named because their ends are shaped like hooks?

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No. They are called hookworms because of the microscopic hooksaround their mouths by which they attach themselves to the intestinallining. Hookworms arc five eighths of an inch long and about as thick asheavy thread.