Definition of Distome

1. a parasitic flatworm [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Distome

disto-occlusion
distobuccal
distobucco-occlusal
distobuccopulpal
distocervical
distoclusal
distoclusion
distogingival
distoincisal
distolingual
distolinguo-occlusal
distoma
distomatosis
distome (current term)
distomedially
distomer
distomers
distomes
distomiasis
distomolar
distonic
distopia
distopias
distoplacement
distopulpal
distort
distortable

Literary usage of Distome

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science by Indiana Academy of Science (1922)
"To the above list the writer would contribute a new form of par site relationship, namely, the occurrence of distome larvae in other ir mature parasites. ..."

2. Animal Parasites and Messmates by Beneden (Pierre Joseph) (1885)
"This distome is of the size of a large leech, and its host does not measure ... found in the bay of Naples another free distome, which is also attached by ..."

3. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"Young distome 0.45 by oi mm. Genital rudiment forms rod-like mass partly ... 239 (238) distome fills less than half of stem of anchor. ..."

4. Transactions of the Seventh International Congress of Hygiene and Demography by Charles Edward Shelly (1892)
"Les observations de distome hépatique chez l'homme, ... Au point de vue pathogénique, il paraît avoir une influence analogue à celle du distome ..."

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