lophocercousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

lophocercous (not comparable)

1. Having a tail structure with lateral lobes or extensions.

   Synonym: lophocercal

   • 1943, Charles Franklin Craig, Ernest Carroll Faust, Clinical Parasitology, page 398:

     A first sporocyst generation and two reiae generations are then developed, and, finally, there erupt from the snail characteristic lophocercous (i.e., keeled) cercaria (Fig. 173) , with pigmented eye-spots, abundant penetration glands and a distinctive anterior end, having an antero-ventral mouth and a pair of clustered openings for the penetration gland.