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cercaria::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | larva |
| Derivation | cercarial |
Examples of cercaria
cercaria
As the cercaria penetrates the skin it transforms into a migrating schistosomulum stage.
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Penetration of the human skin occurs after the cercaria have attached to and explored the skin.
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This free-swimming stage of a parasite larva, a trematode cercaria, leaves an infected snail to encyst on a fish brain.
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- Tadpole-shaped parasitic larva of a trematode worm; tail disappears in adult stage
- (cercarial) of or relating to cercaria
- A miracidium is a small free-living larval stage of parasitic flatworms in the class Trematoda. It is released from eggs which are usually shed in the faeces of its vertebrate host. ...
- (cercarium) an infectious form of Schistosoma which infects their hosts by direct skin penetration; cercariae emerge daily from the snail host; they are highly motile, alternating between vigorous upward movement and sinking; cercarium attaches to the human skin and secretes proteolytic enzymes ...
- State of development of certain parasites enabling them to enter the human organism.
- Free-living, tailed larval stage of trematodes; may infect humans by direct penetration (schistosomes); may attach to vegetation and encyst to metacercarial stage (Fasciola, Fasciolopsis), or may penetrate tissues of vertebrates or invertebrates and encyst to metacercarial stage (Clonorchis)).
