Digenean life stage

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[:life-stage/id "WBls:0000711"] :life-stage/definition A developmental stage of a Digenean (fluke).

metacercarium

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[:life-stage/id "WBls:0000720"] :life-stage/definition A dormant Digenean (fluke) life stage which occurs after cercariae are released from the intermediate snail host and encyst on vegetation until they are ingested by the definitive host.

newly excysted juveniles

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[:life-stage/id "WBls:0000718"] :life-stage/definition A Digenean (fluke) life stage that occurs in the definitive host. The stage begins when the metacercariae excyst in the intestine of the host, and continues as the NEJs migrate through the liver parenchyma where they increase in size to juvenile flukes and then to mature adults.

juvenile fluke

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[:life-stage/id "WBls:0000719"] :life-stage/definition A Digenean (fluke) life stage that occurs in the definitive host. The stage begins when the newly excysted juveniles migrate through the liver parenchyma where they increase in size to become juvenile flukes. From here they migrate into the bile ducts, where they grow and develop into fully mature adults.