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Digenia: Flukes
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- 1Flat, leaf-like, nonsegmented helminthsDigenea: Flukes
- 2Digenea: Flukes Two cup-shaped suckers (____), front (____) & middle (_____), for attachmentacetabula
anterior
ventral - 3Do flukes have a simple digestive system with no anus?Yes
- 4What are the two types of flukes?Tissue dwelling
Blood flukes - 5Live as unisexual adult males and females Live in the abdominal blood vessels of the hostBlood Flukes
- 6(intestine, liver, lungs or other host organ) Hermaphroditic and highly branched reproductive organs What type of fluke?Tissue dwelling
- 7Common name of: Fasciolopsis buskiGiant Intestinal Fluke
- 8Common name of: Fasciolopsis hepaticaSheep Liver Fluke
- 9Common name of: Clonochis sinensisOriental/Chinese Liver Fluke
- 10Common name of: Paragonimus westermaniOriental Lung Fluke
- 11What tissue dwelling fluke is capable of self-fertilizationHermaphrodite helminths
- 12Hermaphrodite helminths requires how many hosts? Which is the always the first?two intermediate hosts
Snail is always first intermediate host - 13What are operculated eggs?(cap-like; escape hatch for miracidium)
- 14Method of infection ; what is encysted metacercariae– Humans ingest plant, fish, or crustacean with encysted metacercariae (infective early stages of adult fluke)
- 15Part 1 life cycyle of Hermaphrodite helminthsAfter digestion, metacercariae excyst in the duodenum
Excysted metacercariae migrate and mature into adults in appropriate site - 16Life cycle (Part 2): IntestineF. buski and H. heterophyes
- 17Bile DuctF. hepatica and C. sinensis
- 18LungP. westermani
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- Medical Laboratory Science Flashcards on Digenia: Flukes, created by kat k on 15/02/2021.
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