Definition of Fasciolopsis

1. Noun. A genus of Fasciolidae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Fasciolopsis
Generic synonyms: Worm Genus
Group relationships: Family Fasciolidae, Fasciolidae
Member holonyms: Fasciolopsis Buski

Medical Definition of Fasciolopsis

1. A genus of very large intestinal fasciolid flukes. Origin: Fasciola + G. Opsis, form, appearance (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fasciolopsis

Farquharson
Farr's law
Farragut
Farrant's mounting fluid
Farre's line
Farrell
Farsala
Farsi
Faruk I
Farvardin
Fas-activated serine-threonine kinase
Fas antigen
Fasciola gigantica
Fascioloides magna
Fasciolopsis
Fasciolopsis buski
Fasciolopsis rathouisi
Fascism
Fast of Ab
Fast of Av
Fat Man
Fat Tuesday
Fata Morgana
Fata Morganas
Fatah
Fatah-RC
Fatah Revolutionary Council
Fatah Tanzim
Fate

Literary usage of Fasciolopsis

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)
"Gut caeca similar to those of fasciolopsis buski. Testes—regularly branched, separated by an incurving of the casca, the anterior occupying a smaller area ..."

2. Diagnosis of Protozoa and Worms Parasitic in Man by Robert William Hegner, William Walter Cort (1921)
"These last two forms may belong to the same species. Three other intestinal flukes of man fasciolopsis ..."

3. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1916)
"... intestinal canal which is not the case with Clonorchis, fasciolopsis, ... fasciolopsis and Clonorchis have branched testicles (the former a very large ..."

4. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1918)
"... intestinal canal which is not the case with Clonorchis, fasciolopsis, ... fasciolopsis and Clonorchis have branched testicles (the former a very large ..."

5. Text-book of general and special pathology for students and practitioners by Henry Turner Brooks (1915)
"fasciolopsis buski (Lank.). Vs, ventral sucker; Cp, ... 1887) is related to fasciolopsis. and, according to Braun, has been observed but once, namely, ..."

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