Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous flatworms of the class Trematoda, including both external and internal parasites of animal hosts, that have a thick outer cuticle and one or more suckers or hooks for attaching to host tissue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
trematoid .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the Trematodea. Also used adjectively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun any of several
parasitic flatworms , of the classTrematoda , that have externalsuckers
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Further, many native populations of this organism are infected with a parasitic trematode that causes castration sterilization in females.
Carin Bondar: No Eggs? No Problem! Carin Bondar 2012
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 Further, many native populations of this organism are infected with a parasitic trematode that causes castration sterilization in females.
Carin Bondar: No Eggs? No Problem! Carin Bondar 2012
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& Feminella J.W. “Parasitic mite and trematode abundance are associated with reduced reproductive output and physiological condition of freshwater mussels.”
Freshwater mussels in North America - factors affecting their endangerment and extinction 2009
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Curt Lively - snails and trematode infection in New Zealand.
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As is the case for other trematode eggs, Fasciola eggs have an operculum (a distinguishing feature) on one end and are oval in shape.
Chapter 2 1998
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Praziquantel, a very effective drug against most trematode infections, is inactive against Fasciola species.
Chapter 2 1998
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It wouldn't be simple, because this trematode was probably Hepatodirus hominis, and it was tricky.
The Lani People 1951
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The parasite that's doing the damage is a flatworm, a trematode called Hepatodirus hominis.
The Lani People 1951
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Hale found evidence of trematode genes in the sturgeon genome and of a protozoan parasite that causes a sexually transmitted disease in humans.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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While trying to find a DNA-based test to determine the sex of lake sturgeon, Purdue University researchers found that the sturgeon genome contains trematode genes that didn't originally belong to it and may harbor a protozoan parasite that causes a sexually transmitted disease in humans.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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