schistosome
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təˌsoʊm noun
adjective
2.
Also, schis·to·so·mal. pertaining to or caused by schistosomes.
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schistosome (ˈʃɪstəˌsəʊm) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| Also called: bilharzia any of various blood flukes of the chiefly tropical genus Schistosoma, which cause disease in man and domestic animals | |
| [C19: from New Latin Schistosoma; see | |
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Schistosome
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| schistosome (shĭs'tə-sōm') Pronunciation Key
Any of several chiefly tropical trematodes of the genus Schistosoma, many of which are parasitic in the blood of birds and mammals, including three species that cause infection in humans, as in schistosomiasis. |
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Example sentences
In this condition, the schistosome is destroyed within the skin.
Investigators have struggled for years against the schistosome's evasiveness.
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