Crossword-Solution: CERCARIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cercaria | n. | The larval form of a trematode worm having the shape of a tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail-like appendage. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CERCARIA | anagram | CARICARE |
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| cercariae | 1 answer |
| Larva | 29 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZECMEA
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eruption
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Sentences with CERCARIA (5)
Systemic treatment and cooking of all food had cleaned up the infective cercaria and individual infections, and after six months of intensive search, quarantine, and investigation, Kennon was morally certain that the disease had been eradicated.
Considerable attention was attracted to the matter when Bojanus first published a paper entitled “A Short Note on Cercaria and their Place of Origin.” He pointed out that the cercariæ creep out of the “royal yellow worms,” which occur in freshwater snails (_Limnæa, Paludina_), and are probably generated in these worms.
Just as the polyp originating from the egg of a medusa represents a generation of medusæ, so does the germinal tube (“royal yellow worm”) originating from the ciliated embryo of a Distoma, etc., represent the cercaria.
These were consequently regarded as the progeny of trematodes, and Steenstrup, guided by his observations, conjectured that the cercaria, whose entrance into the snails he had observed accompanied by the simultaneous loss of the propelling tail, finally penetrated into other animals, in which they became flukes.
These become a fresh generation of rediæ or give rise to the third stage (CERCARIA).] [Illustration: FIG.