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blood fluke

American

noun

a schistosome.

blood fluke British

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of blood fluke

First recorded in 1870–75

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blood fluke

Discovered by biologist Thomas Platt last year, B. obamai is a blood fluke, a tiny flatworm that resides in the blood vessels of the lungs of its hosts, Malaysian freshwater turtles.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2016

Trematodes are responsible for serious human diseases including schistosomiasis, a blood fluke.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

Schistosomiasis, caused by a tiny blood fluke which burrows under the skin of river bathers, causes fever, hives, bladder infection, sometimes cirrhosis of the liver.

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