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blood fluke

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blood fluke
n.
See schistosome.
blood fluke
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any parasitic flatworm, such as a schistosome, that lives in the blood vessels of man and other vertebrates: class Digenea See also trematode
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Noun1.blood fluke - flatworms parasitic in the blood vessels of mammals
schistosome
trematode, trematode worm, fluke - parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host
genus Schistosoma, Schistosoma - type genus of the family Schistosomatidae: blood flukes


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Schistosomes are blood flukes, or flatworms, that infect people through the skin during the parasite's waterborne larval stage.
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The tiny blood fluke (Schistosoma mansoni), for example, emerges from a snail and swims through tropical waters in Africa or South America in search of soft human skin.
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Bullard had identified one novel parasite, a blood fluke.
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