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Definition of Genus fasciola
1. Noun. A genus of Fasciolidae.
Generic synonyms: Worm Genus
Group relationships: Family Fasciolidae, Fasciolidae
Member holonyms: Fasciola Hepatica, Liver Fluke
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Fasciola
Literary usage of Genus fasciola
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)
"Genus. Fasciola, L., 1758. The ventral sucker is situated at the level of the
junction of the cone with the body, viz., at the level of the "shoulder," and ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"12) (21, 80, 79, 41) genus fasciola. ar In mammals; worms of large size. br Worms
18-50 mm. in length, 4-13 mm. in breadth; anterior end distinctly set off ..."
3. The Inspection of Meats for Animal Parasites by United States Bureau of Animal Industry, D. E. Salmon (1898)
"The genus Fasciola contains the large, flounder-like, parasites found especially
in the liver of herbivorous animals and known under the general term ..."
4. Clinical Diagnosis: A Manual of Laboratory Methods by James Campbell Todd (1918)
"... generation occurring in some water animal: mollusks, amphibians, fishes, etc.
Trematode infection is uncommon in this country. 1. genus fasciola. ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1869)
"... worms in question were referable to tha genus Fasciola, constituting a new
species, which, as such, had never hitherto been properly described. ..."
6. Illustrations of British Ornithology by Prideaux John Selby (1833)
"It is occasioned by an intestinal worm of the genus Fasciola (the Fasciola Trachea
of MONTAGU), which, lodging in the trachea, adheres by a kind of sucker ..."
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