blood fluke

C19148
concept

A blood fluke is a parasitic flatworm (genus Schistosoma) that lives in the blood vessels of vertebrate hosts, causing diseases such as schistosomiasis in humans.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
blood fluke canonical 2

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: blood fluke
Generated description
A blood fluke is a parasitic flatworm (genus Schistosoma) that lives in the blood vessels of vertebrate hosts, causing diseases such as schistosomiasis in humans.

Instances (2)

Instance Via concept surface
Schistosoma mansoni
Sambon
surface form: Schistosoma mansoni