Definition of Genus Fasciola

1. Noun. A genus of Fasciolidae.

Exact synonyms: Fasciola
Generic synonyms: Worm Genus
Group relationships: Family Fasciolidae, Fasciolidae
Member holonyms: Fasciola Hepatica, Liver Fluke

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Fasciola

genus Euproctis
genus Eurotium
genus Euryale
genus Eustoma
genus Eutamias
genus Euterpe
genus Euthynnus
genus Evernia
genus Exacum
genus Exaeretodon
genus Fabiana
genus Fagopyrum
genus Fagus
genus Falcatifolium
genus Falco
genus Fasciola (current term)
genus Fasciolopsis
genus Feijoa
genus Felicia
genus Felis
genus Ferocactus
genus Festuca
genus Ficus
genus Filago
genus Firmiana
genus Fissurella
genus Fistularia
genus Fistulina
genus Flacourtia
genus Flammulina

Literary usage of Genus Fasciola

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

1. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"Genus. Fasciola, L., 1758. The ventral sucker is situated at the level of the junction of the cone with the body, viz., at the level of the "shoulder," and ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"12) (21, 80, 79, 41) genus Fasciola. ar In mammals; worms of large size. br Worms 18-50 mm. in length, 4-13 mm. in breadth; anterior end distinctly set off ..."

3. The Inspection of Meats for Animal Parasites by United States Bureau of Animal Industry, D. E. Salmon (1898)
"The genus Fasciola contains the large, flounder-like, parasites found especially in the liver of herbivorous animals and known under the general term ..."

4. Clinical Diagnosis: A Manual of Laboratory Methods by James Campbell Todd (1918)
"... generation occurring in some water animal: mollusks, amphibians, fishes, etc. Trematode infection is uncommon in this country. 1. genus Fasciola. ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1869)
"... worms in question were referable to tha genus Fasciola, constituting a new species, which, as such, had never hitherto been properly described. ..."

6. Illustrations of British Ornithology by Prideaux John Selby (1833)
"It is occasioned by an intestinal worm of the genus Fasciola (the Fasciola Trachea of MONTAGU), which, lodging in the trachea, adheres by a kind of sucker ..."

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