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Definition of Platyhelminth

1. Noun. Parasitic or free-living worms having a flattened body.

Definition of Platyhelminth

1. Noun. Any flatworm of the phylum ''Platyhelminthes'' ¹

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Definition of Platyhelminth

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Medical Definition of Platyhelminth

1. Common name for any flatworm of the phylum Platyhelminthes; any cestode (tapeworm) or trematode (fluke). Origin: platy-+ G. Helmins, worm (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Platyhelminth

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"The excretory system t first, as in the platyhelminth, a continuous system, opening by nerous apertures into the body cavity by a single orifice or a г of ..."

2. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1901)
"(There are some features of resemblance to the Ctenophora, as Lang has pointed out.1) But in the platyhelminth the endoderm had become separated from the ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"The " ideal " platyhelminth, exploited in the opening chapter, is rather too generally used to meet the approval of present-day zoologists, even though it ..."

4. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"... and in the Polyzoa and the Composite Ascidians, and also in certain cases among the platyhelminth.es and Annulata. In all these, and in other cases that ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"The excretory system t first, as in the platyhelminth, a continuous system, opening by nerous apertures into the body cavity by a single orifice or a г of ..."

6. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1901)
"(There are some features of resemblance to the Ctenophora, as Lang has pointed out.1) But in the platyhelminth the endoderm had become separated from the ..."

7. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"The " ideal " platyhelminth, exploited in the opening chapter, is rather too generally used to meet the approval of present-day zoologists, even though it ..."

8. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"... and in the Polyzoa and the Composite Ascidians, and also in certain cases among the platyhelminth.es and Annulata. In all these, and in other cases that ..."

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