DISTOMA
\dɪstˈə͡ʊmə], \dɪstˈəʊmə], \d_ɪ_s_t_ˈəʊ_m_ə]\
Definitions of DISTOMA
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1900 - A dictionary of medicine and the allied sciences
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
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A genus of parasitic, trematode worms, having two suckers for attaching themselves to the part they infest. See 1st Fluke, 2.
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A genus of parasitic, trematode worms, having two suckers for attaching themselves to the part they infest. See 1st Fluke, 2.
By Noah Webster.
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dis't[=o]-ma, n. the genus of trematode worms to which the liver-fluke belongs. [Gr. distomos, two-mouthed--dis, and stoma, the mouth.]
By Thomas Davidson
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[Greek] A genus of trematodes. D. hepaticum produces rot in sheep, and occurs in man in bile-ducts, portal veins, and intestines. D. Buski (D. crassum), D. lanceilatum, and other species occur rarely in the intestines; D. Ring eri in the human lung.
By Alexander Duane
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Syn.: Schistosoma, Bilharzia, Paragonimus, and Clonorchis. A parasitic genus of the class Trematoda, the order Malacocotylea, and the family Fasciolidae, being a flat, leafÂlike, small worm, with scales or spines, and characterized by having the large ventral sucker near the oral. Some of the species occasionally infect man, being found in the urinary bladder, the intestines, the lungs, and the liver, where they lay eggs. They also infect cats, sheep, horses and cattle.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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