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Definition of Digenetic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Digenetic
1. 1. Pertaining to or characterised by digenesis. Synonym: heteroxenous. 2. Pertaining to the digenetic fluke. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Digenetic
Literary usage of Digenetic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England by Royal Agricultural Society of England (1881)
"Holo- stoma, which is usually classed with the digenetic Trematodes, is in the
manner of its development intermediate between the digenetic ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"Thus we see that although there are several thousand species of digenetic trematodes
in existence living in all parts of the world they are astonishingly ..."
3. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"A very large number of species of digenetic Trematoda are known which can be
arranged under relatively few genera. The Class Trematoda may be divided as ..."
4. An Introduction to the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of Animals: A by Gilbert Charles Bourne, Arthur Bolles Lee (1902)
"Such forms are described as digenetic. ... is a very good example of a digenetic
Trematode. The eggs, as has been described, acquire chiti- nous shells ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The life-history of a typical digenetic Trematode may be summed up as follows:—(1)
the ... Hence it would appear that the digenetic forms have at least one, ..."
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