| 单词 | liver fluke |
| 释义 | > as lemmasliver fluke liver fluke n. any of various parasitic trematode worms which infest the liver of mammalian hosts (including humans); esp. Fasciola hepatica, which particularly affects sheep and has an intermediate stage in snails of the genus Limnaea; (also) disease caused by or infestation with such parasites. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Platyhelminthes > [noun] > class Trematodes > order Digenea > suborder Prostomata > division Distomata > distoma hepaticum liver flukec1795 Distoma1854 distome1876 distomian1876 liver distome1897 brainworm1969 c1795 P. A. Nemnich Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lex. vi. 816 Liver fluke, Fasciola hepatica. 1837 R. Owen in Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 121/1 The Trematode Order..includes only two species infesting the human body, one of which, the liver-fluke,..is extremely rare. 1950 M. Bates Nature of Nat. Hist. 151 If a sheep were given the choice, though, it might prefer to be debilitated by liver flukes rather than killed by a lion. 1993 C. O'Gaora Giving Ground 48 What few cows they possessed had picked up liver fluke from the sour meadow behind their house. < as lemmas |
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