flatworms in English

noun
1
a worm of a phylum that includes the planarians together with the parasitic flukes and tapeworms. They are distinguished by having a simple flattened body that lacks blood vessels, and a digestive tract that, if present, has a single opening.
Planarians are free-living flatworms , and have a much simpler life history.

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1. Unprotected by a shell, they are easy meat for insect larvae and flatworms. Sentencedict.com

2. It includes two groups of parasitic flatworms, known as flukes.

3. Cestodes are tapeworms or flatworms, which are acoelomates and obligates parasites.

4. High concentrations of heavy water (90%) rapidly kill fish, tadpoles, flatworms, and Drosophila.

5. Adult tapeworm infection is the infection of the digestive tract by parasitic flatworms called cestodes or tapeworms.

6. Bacteria, yeast, corals, flatworms, Jellyfish and sea anemones are some animal species which reproduce through Budding.

7. Provides information on the basic microanatomical features of some major groups of simple multicellular animals including sponges, Coelenterates, and flatworms

8. Also known as schistosomiasis or snail fever, Bilharzia is a disease caused by parasitic flatworms called schistosomes

9. Cestoda - tapeworms class Cestoda helminth, parasitic worm - worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes phylum Platyhelminthes, Platyhelminthes - flatworms cestode, tapeworm - ribbonlike flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates family

10. Bilharzia, also called Schistosomiasis, is an illness caused by an infection with one of several species of flukes, or flatworms

11. Cestode: see Platyhelminthes Platyhelminthes, phylum containing about 20,000 species of soft-bodied, bilaterally symmetrical, invertebrate animals, commonly called flatworms

12. Young flatworms vary in colour from white to pale orange and develop their adult colouration as they grow.

13. ‘Data from sponges, Ctenophores, and cnidarians are providing a glimpse into the some of the earliest events in Hox evolution.’ ‘Cell-lineage studies of Ctenophores, polyclad flatworms, nemertines and acoelomorph flatworms reveal important distinctions between mesodermal cells arising from ectoderm and those from endoderm.’

14. What does Cestode mean? Any of a class (Cestoda) of parasitic flatworms, with a ribbonlike body and no intestinal canal; tapeworm

15. These hermaphroditic, free-living flatworms are usually small in size, with large species reaching up to 5 mm in body length (e.g. Macrostomum tuba).

16. Bucephalus ("ox head") is the genus name for many trematode flatworms that are parasites of molluscs and fish

17. Her research focused on polyclad flatworms, a marine worm which is unique in its ability to generate tissue through stem cells.

18. Annelids are considered members of the Lophotrochozoa, a 'Super-Phylum' of Protostomes that also includes Molluscs, Brachiopods, Flatworms and Nemerteans.

19. Schistosomiasis, also called bilharzia or Bilharziasis, group of chronic disorders caused by small, parasitic flatworms (family Schistosomatidae) commonly called blood flukes

20. During the day, flatworms can be found resting on the surface of soil underneath objects in close contact with the ground.

21. Some small multicellular organisms, such as flatworms, are also able to perform sufficient gas exchange across the skin or cuticle that surrounds their bodies.

22. Carpet flatworms are found off the South African coast from the Cape Peninsula to Port Elizabeth as well as in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.

23. Nearly all of the cestodes, or tapeworms (class Cestoda in the phylum Platyhelminthes, the flatworms), are parasitic as adults in the intestinal tract of vertebrates

24. Schistosomiasis, also known as Bilharzia or snail fever, is an acute and chronic disease caused by parasitic flatworms called schistosomes or blood flukes

25. The Turbellaria are one of the traditional sub-divisions of the phylum Platyhelminthes (flatworms), and include all the sub-groups that are not exclusively parasitic.

26. Planarian flatworms regenerate their heads and tails from anterior or posterior wounds and this regenerative Blastema polarity is controlled by Wnt/β-catenin signaling

27. EuCestoda, commonly referred to as tapeworms, are the larger of the two subclasses of flatworms in the class Cestoda (the other subclass is Cestodaria)

28. After completing her undergraduate work with a thesis on flatworms, in 2003, Bolaños continued her education at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) in the United States.

29. Cestode [ sĕs ′tōd′ ] Any of various parasitic flatworms of the class Cestoda, having a long flat body that usually has a specialized organ of attachment at one end (the scolex)

30. Alternative Titles: Cestoda, cestode Tapeworm, also called cestode, any member of the invertebrate class Cestoda (phylum Platyhelminthes), a group of parasitic flatworms containing about 5,000 species.

31. Schistosomiasis (Bilharzia) is a neglected tropical disease caused by parasitic flatworms (blood flukes) of the genus Schistosoma, with considerable morbidity in parts of the Middle East, South

32. ‘The Cestoda, or tapeworms, are intestinal parasites in vertebrates, and they also show anatomical and life history modifications for parasitism.’ More example sentences ‘The medically important flatworms are further divided into the flukes and tapeworms (Cestoda).’

33. In biology, Cestoda is the class of parasitic flatworms, called cestodes or tapeworms, that live in the digestive tract of vertebrates as adults and often in the bodies of various animals as

34. Medical definition of Cestoda: a class of the phylum Platyhelminthes comprising the tapeworms and including dorsoventrally flattened parasitic usually segmented flatworms without cilia that lack a digestive tract and typically consist of a differentiated scolex and a chain of proglottides each including a set of reproductive organs.