Lexicographical Neighbors of Miracidia
Literary usage of Miracidia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"The miracidia do not hatch out in water spontaneously, but, according to Leuckart,
in the intestines of slugs ..."
2. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1918)
"For convenience the pigment spots in miracidia, cercariae, immature and mature
... Leuckart (1886: 73) states that in general eyes are lacking in miracidia, ..."
3. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1902)
"In many species the miracidia only hatch when the egg is taken into the stomach of
... (6) It is doubtful if the sporocyst may l>e omitted and the miracidia ..."
4. Animal Parasites and Human Disease by Asa Crawford Chandler (1922)
"71 A) when immersed in fresh water for several weeks develop within themselves
typical ciliated embryos or miracidia (Fig. 71B). The latter burst away the ..."
5. Bilharziosis by Frank Cole Madden (1907)
"The ova have the spine at the end, and contain either living or dead miracidia.
Often the contents of the ova are a granular debris or a calcified mass. ..."
6. The Philippine Journal of Science by Philippines Bureau of Science (1907)
"... a few other observers have succeeded in hatching free swimming, ciliated
miracidia from these eggs by placing them in water for given lengths of time. ..."
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