cercaria
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Origin of cercaria
1830–40; < New Latin, equivalent to cerc- (< Greek kérkos tail) + -āria -aria
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The daughter redia or cercaria, as they are now termed, leave the body of the snail and finally become encysted on the stems of grass, cresses and weeds.
From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by Craig, R. A., D. V. M.
The period of development varies from ten to twenty weeks; each sporocyst may give rise to from five to eight redia and each redia to from twelve to twenty cercaria.
From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by Craig, R. A., D. V. M.
The parasite has a complicated life cycle: its eggs, hatching in warm water, develop larvae which enter snails, there develop to a second, man-attacking larval stage called cercariae or flukes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then comes the unsuspecting sheep to take his frugal meal, and, cropping the grass swallows it, cercariae and all.
From The Eye of Osiris by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
Thus the cercariae, escaping from the snail, find themselves on the grass, whereupon they promptly drop their tails and stick themselves to the grass-blades.
From The Vanishing Man by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
Then comes the unsuspecting sheep to take his frugal meal, and, cropping the grass, swallows it, cercariae and all.
From The Vanishing Man by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
Thus the cercariae, escaping from the snail find themselves on the grass whereupon they promptly drop their tails and stick themselves to the grass-blades.
From The Eye of Osiris by Freeman, R. Austin (Richard Austin)
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