Definition of Distoma. Meaning of Distoma. Synonyms of Distoma

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Definition of Distoma

Distoma
Distoma Dis"to*ma, n. [NL., fr. Gr. di- = di`s- twice + ? mouth.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of parasitic, trematode worms, having two suckers for attaching themselves to the part they infest. See 1st Fluke, 2.

Meaning of Distoma from wikipedia

- Liver fluke is a collective name of a polyphyletic group of parasitic trematodes under the phylum Platyhelminthes. They are prin****lly parasites of the...
- published a paper in 1852 summarizing Bilharz's findings and naming the worms Distoma haematobium. Bilharz wrote a paper in 1856 describing the worms more fully...
- The first description was given by Thomas Spencer Cobbold, who named it Distoma sinense. The fluke p****es its lifecycle in three different hosts, namely...
- 1909 by Maurice Caullery. Originally it was thought to be a subgenus of Distoma. Eudistoma is the most species-rich genus in the family Polycitoridae,...
- 1852. His first work was "Ueber den Puppenzustand eines Distoma" (On the pupal state of Distoma). He graduated in medicine with an M.D. from Tübingen in...
- fully and he named them Distoma haematobium. Their unusual morphology meant that they could not be comfortably included in Distoma so in 1856 Meckel von...
- Küchenmeister F (1857). "Appendix B: On the occurrence of species of Distoma in the human body". On animal and vegetable parasites of the human body:...
- Corps in late 1950. After the dissolution of the army, he caught liver distoma from eating crabs. In 1953, Shin Dong-yup applied to become an air force...
- Distoma had been introduced by French zoologist Marie Jules César Savigny in 1816 for other animals, the tunicates. Adding to the confusion, Distoma and...
- Opisthorchis Species: O. viverrini Binomial name Opisthorchis viverrini (Poirier, 1886) Stiles & H****al, 1896 Synonyms Distoma viverrini Poirier, 1886...