blood fluke

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blood fluke

(Animals) any parasitic flatworm, such as a schistosome, that lives in the blood vessels of man and other vertebrates: class Digenea. See also trematode

blood′ fluke`

a schistosome.

[1870–75]

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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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