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Organism Forms > Life Cycle Stages > Larva > Cercaria > Metacercariae
... > Physiological Phenomena > Growth and Development > Morphogenesis > Metamorphosis, Biological > Life Cycle Stages > Larva > Cercaria > Metacercariae

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Metacercariae  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • do not use / embryol with reference to metacercariae

Scope note

  • Encysted cercaria which house the intermediate stages of trematode parasites in tissues of an intermediate host.

History note

  • 2011

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D058488

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