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metacercarias

metacercarias is the plural of metacercaria.

Meaning of metacercaria

Noun

metacercaria (plural metacercarias or metacercariae)

  1. The encysted stage of a trematode parasite (flukes) in the tissues of an intermediate host.
    • The metacercarias excyst in the duodenum and migrate through the intestinal wall into the body cavity […]1957, Charles Franklin Craig, Ernest Carroll Faust, Craig and Faust's Clinical Parasitology, page 561

Questions about metacercarias

What is metacercarias the plural of?
Metacercarias is the plural of metacercaria.

Words near metacercarias in the dictionary

  1. metacentricity
  2. metacentrics
  3. metacercaria
  4. metacercariae
  5. metacercarial
  6. metacercarias
  7. metacerebral
  8. metacestode
  9. metacestodes
  10. metacetic
  11. metacetone

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