fasciola hepatica

1. 1.

   flatworm parasitic in liver and bile ducts of domestic animals and humans

   Synonymsliver fluke

   Broaderfluke

   Part ofFasciola

Questions about fasciola hepatica

What does fasciola hepatica mean?

fasciola hepatica means "flatworm parasitic in liver and bile ducts of domestic animals and humans".

What is another word for fasciola hepatica?

Close synonyms include liver fluke. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fasciola hepatica a common word?

fasciola hepatica is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.