Crossword-Solution: CERCARIAE
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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
MZCAEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CERCARIAE (5)
The _cercariae_ soon wriggle their way out of the body of the snail, and then complications arise: for it is the habit of this particular snail to leave the water occasionally and take a stroll in the fields.
Thus the _cercariae_, escaping from the snail find themselves on the grass whereupon they promptly drop their tails and stick themselves to the grass-blades.
Then comes the unsuspecting sheep to take his frugal meal, and, cropping the grass swallows it, _cercariae_ and all.
These emerge from the mother cyst and enter the digestive gland of the mollusc and produce cercariae.
These cercariae show an absence of a pharynx and upon the rupturing of the sporocyst are discharged from the mollusc and furnish the infecting stage for penetrating the skin of man or other animal.