schistosome

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
schistosome /ˈʃɪstə(ʊ)ˌsəʊm/

▶noun a parasitic flatworm which causes bilharzia in humans, infesting freshwater snails when immature and the blood vessels of birds and mammals when adult. [Genus Schistosoma.]

– origin early 20th cent.: from mod. L. Schistosoma, from Gk skhistos ‘divided’ + sōma ‘body’.

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blood fluke

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