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Heterophyes Heterophyes [het″er-o-fi´ēz] a genus of minute trematodes found in the middle third of the small intestines of humans and certain other mammals; various species are found from Egypt and Turkey across Asia to Japan and the Philippines.Heterophyes (het'ĕr-of'i-ēz), A genus of digenetic flukes (family Heterophyidae) parasitic in fish-eating birds and mammals, including man; cercariae from infected snails penetrate and encyst in fish, which are eaten by the final hosts. [hetero- + G. phyē, stature, form] |