Medical Definition of Dioctophyma renale

1. A large blood red nematode found in the pelvis of the kidney and the peritoneal cavity of the dog; fairly common in wild carnivores like the mink, but rarely found in man; the life cycle is via leeches ectoparasitic on crayfish, which are then eaten by various fishes and finally by man or any of a number of other mammalian fish-eating hosts. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dioctophyma Renale

Dinah
Dinajpur District
Dinarization
Dindymene
Dinesen
Dingle
Dinka
Dino Paul Crocetti
Dinocerata
Dinoflagellata
Dinornis giganteus
Dinornithidae
Dinornithiformes
Diocletian
Dioctophyma
Dioctophyma renale (current term)
Diodon holocanthus
Diodon hystrix
Diodontidae
Diodora apertura
Diogenean
Diogenes
Diogenes cup
Diomedea exulans
Diomedea nigripes
Diomedeidae
Diomedes
Dion
Dionaea muscipula
Dione

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