Meanings
- not comparableHaving a tail structure with lateral lobes or extensions.
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A first sporocyst generation and two reiae generations are then developed, and, finally, there erupt from the snail characteristic lophocercous (i.e., keeled) cercaria (Fig. 173) , with pigmented eye-spots, abundant penetration glands and a distinctive anterior end, having an antero-ventral mouth and a pair of clustered openings for the penetration gland.
1943, Charles Franklin Craig, Ernest Carroll Faust, Clinical Parasitology, page 398Synonyms: lophocercal
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving a tail structure with lateral lobes or extensions.
Origin
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