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lancet
(redirected from Lancet fluke)

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lancet
1. a pointed surgical knife with two sharp edges
2. short for lancet arch, lancet window

lancet [′lan·sət]
(medicine)
A sharp-pointed, double-edged cutting instrument used to make small incisions.


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read one of the most hair-raising articles Science World has published this year, which traces the life cycle of a lancet fluke and explains how one bizarre parasite enslaves female crabs.
The lancet fluke, for example, is a leaf-shaped flatworm, and this deceptively simple-looking species--Dicrocoelium dendriticum [dye-KROW-sealy-um den-DRIT-ic-um]--has a wildly elaborate life cycle.
 
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