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flatworm
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flatworm /flat·worm/ (flat´wurm) an individual organism of the phylum Platyhelminthes.
flat·worm (fltwûrm)
n.
Any of various worms of the phylum Platyhelminthes, including the parasitic tapeworms and flukes, characteristically having a soft, flat, bilaterally symmetrical body and no body cavity. Also called platyhelminth.
flatworm
any worm of the phylum Platyhelminthes—the flukes or trematodes, and the cestodes or tapeworms of domestic animals.


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By the end of that period, the drug-treated mice had less than one-tenth as many parasite eggs in their livers and only one-fifth as many surviving flatworms as the untreated mice did.
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