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