the flat ciliated larva of flukes that hatches from the egg and gives rise asexually to other larval forms
Derived forms
miracidial (ˌmiraˈcidial)
adjective
Word origin
C20: New Latin, via Late Latin miracidion, from Greek meirax boy, girl
Examples of 'miracidia' in a sentence
miracidia
Eggs from adults were obtained in the laboratory, and hatching was stimulated to obtain miracidia.
Erika P Alarcón, Luz E Velásquez 2009, 'Descripción morfológica de Cotylophoron cotylophorum (Digenea: Paramphistomidae) halladoen bovinos de Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia Descrição morfológica do Cotylophoroncotylophorum (Digenea: Paramphistomidae) em bovinos de Rionegro, Antioquia, ColômbiaMorphological description of Cotylophoron cotylophorum (Digenea: Paramphistomidae)in Cattle from Rionegro, Antioquia, Colombia', Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Pecuariashttp://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0120-06902009000200006. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Ten replications of each experiment with different specimens of molluscs and miracidia were made.
Luiz A. Magalhães, Eliana M. Zanotti-Magalhães, José F. de Carvalho, Marina Faraone 1991, 'Atração miraxonal exercida por Biomphalaria straminea, Lymnaea columella e Physa sp,sobre miracídios de Schistosoma mansoni da linhagem BH The miraxonal attraction exercisedby Biomphalaria straminea, Lymnaea columella and Physa sp over miracidia of Schistosomamansoni', Revista de Saúde Públicahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89101991000100005. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The eggs filled with miracidia showed characteristics of viability.
Iran Mendonça da Silva, Roberto Thiengo, Maria José Conceição, Luis Rey, HenriqueLeonel Lenzi, Edson Pereira Filho, Paulo César Ribeiro 2005, 'Therapeutic failure of praziquantel in the treatment of Schistosoma haematobium infectionin Brazilians returning from Africa', Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762005000400018. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Of 300 snails exposed to miracidia of the three strains, none was infected.
Cecília Pereira de Souza, Liana Konovaloff Janotti Passos, Omar dos Santos Carvalho 1988, 'Resistência de Biomphalaria peregrina de Santa Rita do Sapucaí, Minas Gerais, a infecçãocom três cepas de Schistosoma mansoni Resistance of Biomphalaria peregrina from SantaRita do Sapucaí, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, to infection with strain of Schistosomamansoni', Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02761988000400009. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Freshly-hatched miracidia possessed swim velocities between 2.17 - 2.38 mm/s.
Emery Aidan M, Rollinson David, Ressurreição Margarida, Walker Anthony J 2011, 'A role for p38 MAPK in the regulation of ciliary motion in a eukaryote', BMC Cell Biologyhttp://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2121/12/6. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
There was no evidence, however, that miracidia showing phenotypically reduced susceptibility clustered together genetically.
Charlotte M. Gower, Florian Gehre, Sara R. Marques, Poppy H. L. Lamberton, NicholasJ. Lwambo, Joanne P. Webster 2017, 'Phenotypic and genotypic monitoring of Schistosoma mansoni in Tanzanian schoolchildrenfive years into a preventative chemotherapy national control programme', Parasites & Vectorshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13071-017-2533-6. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Miracidia were observed head-foot and mantle at 30 minutes post-infection.
Vinicius Marques Antunes Ribeiro, Aytube Lucas Coaglio, Fernando Luiz Pereira Oliveira,Cíntia Aparecida de Jesus Pereira, Walter dos Santos Lima 2017, 'Dynamics of haemocytes from Pseudosuccinea columella circulating infected by Fasciolahepatica', Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterináriahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-29612017005015102&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Cy3-signals were detected by fluorescence microscopy in eggs and miracidia hatched from treated eggs.
Kristine J Kines, Gabriel Rinaldi, Tunika I Okatcha, Maria E Morales, Victoria H Mann,Jose F Tort, Paul J Brindley 2010, 'Electroporation facilitates introduction of reporter transgenes and virions into schistosomeeggs.', PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseaseshttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2814865?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)