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The eggs may be found in uncooked meat, especially beef or pork and the liver flukes are found in uncooked fish.
Our research has focused on the relationships between two groups of human blood flukes within the genus Schistosoma.
The pectoral fins and flukes of males are also larger than those of females.
In Asia the species is known to host parasitic lung flukes, which can infect humans if the crabs are eaten undercooked.
Back on the boat and heading to shore, we spotted a spout, a fin and then the flukes of a humpback whale.
Of the 41 counties with a history of blood flukes epidemic, the situation has not been controlled in 14, with a population of 5.95 million.
He went to southern Sudan, where people struggle with guinea worms, blood flukes, and many other such organisms.
The twisting action allows the animal to use the flukes in conjunction with the peduncle as a rudder.
They also practice bottom feeding and are observed in the lagoons with their immature tail stocks and flukes sticking straight up in the air.
We also witnessed humpback whales blowing and diving, breaching and slapping their fins and flukes.
He said the sculpture would depict a whale with its flukes, or tail, raised in the air but could not say what size the sculpture would be.
Water flowed down the erect tail, or flukes, to give the impression of a whale diving in the sea.
The flukes will be buried into the seabed. The very tip of a fluke is sometimes called the bill.
The medically important flatworms are further divided into the flukes and tapeworms.
Similar to the patterns on humpback whale flukes, unique markings on the dolphins' dorsal fins allow for individual identification.
Hanging from the centre of the dome is an anchor shape with red and green lanterns at the end of the anchor flukes.
Each of the plurality of flukes may be provided with an inwardly sloped bill segment at a distal end of the fluke.
Because the mushroom anchor has no projecting stock or flukes to foul, the moored object can swing freely around a mushroom anchor.
Many whales are alive today, and they swim by dorsoventral undulation of their tail flukes.
Having said that, on the seabed to the port side of the bows lies a large iron pendant, perhaps the remains of an anchor with broken flukes.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Distomum, a genus of trematode or suctorial parasitic worms or flukes, infesting various parts in different animals.
The flippers and the trailing edge of the flukes are darker than the rest of the body.
At the crotch or junction, these flukes slightly overlap, then sideways recede from each other like wings, leaving a wide vacancy between.
The compact round body of its root expands into two broad, firm, flat palms or flukes, gradually shoaling away to less than an inch in thickness.
In no living thing are the lines of beauty more exquisitely defined than in the crescentic borders of these flukes.
Together we hove up the rope till the anchor I came in sight with the sturgeon line caught across one of the flukes.
I say, that the motion of a Sperm Whale's flukes above water dispenses a perfume, as when a musk-scented lady rustles her dress in a warm parlor.
They left him regarding the weed-hung flukes of the little anchor with big, pathetic blue eyes, and thanking them profusely.
The flukes are broad, concaved on the rear margin, and deeply notched.
It is a curious example of mimetism in favor of the flukes welfare.
The delicate side-fins, and the palms of his flukes, still freshly retained the plaited crumpled appearance of a baby's ears newly arrived from foreign parts.
While the two headsmen were engaged in making fast cords to his flukes, and in other ways getting the mass in readiness for towing, some conversation ensued between them.
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