cercariae in English

noun
1
a free-swimming larval stage in which a parasitic fluke passes from an intermediate host (typically a snail) to another intermediate host or to the final vertebrate host.
Tadpoles in ponds with snails pick up trematode larvae, called cercariae .

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1. The rediae and cercariae of Parorchis acanthus (Nicoll) were discovered in Nucella lamellosa (Gmelin).

2. Conclusion The ecological characteristics of Trichobilharzia cercariae have been preliminarily verified in the Huaihe river system.

3. From the Cambridge English Corpus The infection process of mullets with these cercariae is discussed in relation to salinity conditions prevailing in a Brackish …

4. The primary alimentary canal of freshly emerged Cercariae of S. mansoni shows at least four morphological different sections: a pharyngeal as well as an upper and a lower oesophageal part, which is connected with the fourth part “intestinal sack”.