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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 pal·i·sade worm /ˌpæləˈsed-/ 名詞
 馬圓線蟲

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pal·i·sade n.
 1. Fort. A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such stakes set in the ground as a means of defense.
 2. Any fence made of pales or sharp stakes.
 3. A line of bold cliffs, esp. one showing basaltic columns; -- usually in pl., and orig. used as the name of the cliffs on the west bank of the lower Hudson.
 Palisade cells Bot., vertically elongated parenchyma cells, such as are seen beneath the epidermis of the upper surface of many leaves.
 Palisade worm Zool., a nematoid worm (Strongylus armatus), parasitic in the blood vessels of the horse, in which it produces aneurisms, often fatal.