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Digenea
(redirected from Digenetic trematode)

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Di·ge·ne·a (d-jn-, dj-n)
n.
A subclass of parasitic flatworms characterized by a complex life cycle involving developmental stages in a mollusk intermediate host and an adult stage in a vertebrate and including all of the common flukes of humans and other mammals.
Digenea
a subclass of trematodes that includes most of the flukes of veterinary importance.


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Retinoid exposure has been associated exclusively with mirror-image limb duplications (6); this was also the principal lesion documented by Sessions and Ruth (5) in Pacific tree frogs, Hyla regilla, exposed to digenetic trematodes.
Limb Malformations and Abnormal Sex Hormone Concentrations in Frogs by Babbitt, Kimberly J. / Environmental Health Perspectives
Developmental stages of the digenetic trematode responsible for the disease are harbored in freshwater snails.
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