cercaria
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Epidemiology
- free-swimming trematode larva that emerges from its snail intermediate host
- it may penetrate the skin of its definitive host(s) or encyst on vegetation or in fish or arthropods in the form of metacercaria
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References
- ↑ Stedman's Medical Dictionary 26th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995