SCHISTOSOMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Schistosoma mean? 

• SCHISTOSOMA (noun)
  The noun SCHISTOSOMA has 1 sense:

1. type genus of the family Schistosomatidae: blood flukes

  Familiarity information: SCHISTOSOMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCHISTOSOMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Type genus of the family Schistosomatidae: blood flukes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Schistosoma; Schistosoma

Hypernyms ("Schistosoma" is a kind of...):

worm genus (a genus of worms)

Meronyms (members of "Schistosoma"):

blood fluke; schistosome (flatworms parasitic in the blood vessels of mammals)

Holonyms ("Schistosoma" is a member of...):

family Schistosomatidae; Schistosomatidae (a family of Trematoda)

 Context examples 

An unusual presentation of schistosomiasis characterized by a pruritic papular rash in the perigenital or periumbilical area due to an allergic reaction to schistosoma eggs deposited in the skin.

(Cutaneous Schistosomiasis, NCI Thesaurus)

Making its genome available to the scientific community will help researchers work with the genes in this genome and control the snail, so it can become resistant to the infection of the Schistosoma mansoni, which carries the disease.

(Scientists sequence genome of snail linked to schistosomiasis, Agência Brasil)