fluke

(flook) [A.S. fide, flatfish.] One of a number of varieties of trematode worms, parasitic in the intestine, liver, lungs, kidneys, blood, and other regions of man and the lower animals blood Schistosomum htBmatobium. bron'chial Paragon i mus wesiermanni, Egyp'tian intes'tinal f., Cotylogonimus heterophyes. Japanese' liv'er f., Opisthorchis sinensis, lan'cet f., Dicrocelium lanceolatum. liv'er f., Fasciola hepatica. lung f Paragon i mus wesiermanni