What's the difference between hepatica and kidneywort?
Hepatica
Definition:
(n.) A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup.
(n.) Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticae; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticae, in the Supplement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although approximately 29% of the inoculum was recovered from the hepatic parenchyma of the sheep, F. hepatica was found in only one of six inoculated deer.
(2) It follows from the results that the effectiveness of some antifasciolics on laboratory animals need not always be in correlation with their effect in ruminants - hence it is necessary to verify the results obtained in laboratory animals and to check them on natural F. hepatica hosts.
(3) Adult F hepatica flukes were recovered from experimentally infected sheep and ESP obtained from the flukes; portions of liver were cut and frozen at -70 C. Fascioloides magna adults were collected from naturally infected white-tailed deer and ESP obtained; portions of liver were collected from noninfected white-tailed deer.
(4) Eighteen Chinese cattle were experimentally infected with metacercariae of Fasciola hepatica and randomly assigned to 6 groups.
(5) Male and female rats of the inbred Piebald Virol Glaxo ( PVG) and Sprague Dawley (SD) strains were infected with 20 metacercariae of Fasciola hepatica.
(6) Groups of five rats each were infected with metacercariae of Fasciola hepatica according to two experimental procedures.
(7) The effects of experimental infections with Fasciola hepatica of ovine and bovine origin in homologous and heterologous hosts and in uninfected controls were compared; groups comprised 5 animals each.
(8) Over a period of 15 months data were collected from abattoirs in Great Britain on 213,082 cattle and 362,838 sheep livers to determine the distribution and prevalence of damage by Fasciola hepatica.
(9) Homogenates of synaptically rich structures of the body (the anterior end of A. suum and F. hepatica, as well as narrow strips of the anterior part of A. suum with median nerves and innervation processes of muscle cells) have been tested for the presence of acetylcholine receptor protein (AchR).
(10) The necessity of host death for transmission is a strongly destabilizing factor, suggesting that C. hepatica cannot regulate most populations stably in the absence of strong resource limitation, although it has the potential to depress mouse populations below infection-free levels.
(11) A band detected by EITB using a densitometer in the area corresponding to 26 kDa reacted with rabbit anti-fresh fluke antigen and infected cattle sera but not with fluke-negative rabbit sera, rabbit anti-Fasciola hepatica egg sera, Fascioloides magna positive or negative cattle sera.
(12) These annelids which destroy the larval stages of Fasciola hepatica have been observed in the laboratory.
(13) Spermatogenesis and the fine structure of the mature spermatozoon of Fasciola hepatica have been studied by transmission electron microscopy.
(14) Pars hepatica of normal V. cava inferior is missed.
(15) Groups of sheep were infected with 100 viable metacercariae of Fasciola hepatica.
(16) Snails infected with F hepatica were found in February, June, July and August; their infection rate did not exceed 3%.
(17) Nor in the feces neither in the bile F. hepatica eggs were observed.
(18) The diagnosis of this parasitosis caused by Capillaria hepatica was made by needle biopsy of the liver in a 1-year-old girl who presented with a triad of persistent fever, hepatomegaly and hypereosinophilia.
(19) The activity of the rat liver monooxygenase system after single and combined treatment with Fasciola hepatica and diethylnitrosamine (DENA) has been studied in a 27-week experiment.
(20) F. hepatica infection intensity followed a similar trend, but were complicated by differing treatment practices.