SINCE 1828
Heterophyes
noun
Het·ero·phy·es
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Medical Definition of Heterophyes
: a genus (the type of the family Heterophyidae) of small digenetic trematode worms infesting the small intestine especially of dogs, cats, and humans in Egypt and much of tropical Asia
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