Distinguishment

Distinction; observation or appreciation of difference. Disti'tle, v . a . To deprive of legal title; to disqualify. Disto'ma, n. [Gr. dis , and stoma , mouth.] ( Zool .) A genus of Entozoa or intestinal worms, order of Nematoids . The species are numerous, inhabiting the alimentary canal, or organs of digestion, of birds, fishes, and mammal i a. Some of them are very minute, others are four or five lines long, and half a line broad. The body is generally soft, depre ed, or cylindrical, and furnished with two distinct and isolated suckers, the anterior of which surrounds the mouth, the other being situated on the ventral surface between the middle and anterior sixth of the body. The best known is the Fluke, D. he paticum , which occurs in the liver of the sheep, and is the cause of the disease, so fatal to them, called the rot . They are found also in the gall-bladder and hepatic ducts in man, and occasionally in the ox, horse, . The genus D. is synonymous with Fusciola .