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metacercaria (medicine) and coffin(2) (iou)


metacercaria (medicine)


metacercaria


The post-cercarial encysted stage in the life history of a fluke, prior to transfer to the definitive host. Some cercariae attach themselves to grass or Other vegetation, form metacercaria, and later are ingested by herbivores, as in Fasciola and similar forms; others encyst in muscles of fish, as in Clonorchis, or in crayfish, as in Paragonimus.

Origin: meta-+ G. Kerkos, tail


coffin(2) (iou)



coffin verb trans. M16.
[from the noun.]
Enclose (as) in a coffin.
Jonson Coffin them alive In some kind clasping prison. A. P. Stanley The coffined body lay in state at Westminster.