miracidium
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Epidemiology
- ciliated 1st stage larva of a trematode that emerges from the egg to penetrate the tissue of its 1st intermediate host, a snail
- miracidia develop into sporocyst which eventually produce cercaria within the snail
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References
- ↑ Stedman's Medical Dictionary 26th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995