Heterophyidae

Heterophyidae
A family of tiny fish-borne trematodes, including the genus Heterophyes and its common human parasite, H. heterophyes.

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Het·ero·phy·i·dae (het″ər-o-fiґĭ-de) a family of trematodes that includes the genera Heterophyes and Metagonimus.

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  • Heterophyes — A genus of digenetic flukes (family Heterophyidae) parasitic in fish eating birds and mammals, including man; cercariae from infected snails penetrate and encyst in fish, which are eaten by the final hosts. [hetero + G. phye, stature, form] H.… …   Medical dictionary

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  • heterophyid — Common name for a member of the family Heterophyidae. * * * het·ero·phy·id fī id n any trematode worm of the genus Heterophyes or of the family (Heterophyidae) to which it belongs heterophyid adj …   Medical dictionary

  • Metagonimus — A genus of flukes (superfamily Heterophyundea) that encyst on fish and infect various fish eating animals, including humans. M. yokogawai, an intestinal fluke widely distributed in the Far East and the Balkans and one of the smallest (1–2.5 mm)… …   Medical dictionary

  • Metagonimus yokogawai — Systematik Unterklasse: Digenea Ordnung: Echinostomida Unterordnung …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Heterophyes — Heterophyes …   Wikipédia en Français

  • ТРЕМАТОДЫ — ТРЕМАТОДЫ, или сосальщики (Trematodes Rud. 1808), класс плоских червей Platodes (син. Trematoides Eichw, 1829; Pendularia Owen 1855 и др.). Общая характеристика класса Т. Паразитические платоды, тело к рых приплюснуто в большей или меньшей сте… …   Большая медицинская энциклопедия

  • heterophyid — I. | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷|fīə̇d adjective Etymology: New Latin Heterophyidae, family of trematode worms, from Heterophyes, type genus + idae : of or relating to the genus Heterophyes or family Heterophyidae II. noun ( s) : a heterophyid worm …   Useful english dictionary

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