Meanings
nounmetacercaria (plural metacercarias or metacercariae)
plural metacercarias · plural metacercariae
- The encysted stage of a trematode parasite (flukes) in the tissues of an intermediate host.
The metacercarias excyst in the duodenum and migrate through the intestinal wall into the body cavity […]
1957, Charles Franklin Craig, Ernest Carroll Faust, Craig and Faust's Clinical Parasitology, page 561
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Rhymes with metacercaria
areaBulgariamalariaBavariamilitariasamariaurticariaradiolariaHungariacnidariafritillariamammillariaCarpentariacrotalarialaminariaaraucariamatricariapulmonariacalvariaarmillarialinariaSumeriarosariabaria
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