Medical Definition of Monostome
1. Common name for digenetic trematodes that possess a single sucker, oral or ventral, rather than both. See: Monostoma. Origin: mono-+ G. Stoma, mouth (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monostome
Literary usage of Monostome
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1918)
"The writer has studied intimately the eyes of several monostome and ... to certain
monostome cercariae) arises from a fused anterior dorsal nerve trunk. ..."
2. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"monostome cercariae . . 175 All yet studied have a pair of lateral pigment spots
on the dorsal surface, the simple eyes. Some nave also a medium pigment ..."
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