SINCE 1828
Digenea
noun plural
Di·ge·nea
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Medical Definition of Digenea
: a subclass, suborder, or other taxon of trematode worms which have a complex life cycle involving alternation of sexual reproduction as an internal parasite of a vertebrate with asexual reproduction in a mollusk and often including developmental stages in still other hosts and which include a number of parasites (as the Chinese liver fluke) of humans — compare monogenea
Other Words from Digenea
digenean
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adjective or noun
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adjective or noun
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