blood fluke

American  

noun

1. a schistosome.

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blood fluke British  

noun

1. 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

Example Sentences

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

It set up typhus teams in both Manhattan's East Side and in Algeria, taught Egypt how it might free itself from schistosomiasis�a disease caused by the blood fluke, carried by snails.

From Time Magazine Archive