National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

Last uploaded: February 23, 2024
Preferred Name

Schistosoma haematobium
Synonyms

SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM

Schistosoma haematobium

Definitions

A species of flatworms in the family Schistosomatidae with a strong oral sucker and a smaller posterior ventral sucker. Adult males are around 10 mm and females are 15 mm in length. The life cycle of S. haematobium involves snails as the intermediate host and humans as the definitive host. Within the body infestation is usual seen in the venous plexus of bladder, but it can also be found in the rectal venules.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C124388

ALT_DEFINITION

Any trematode parasite that can be assigned to the species Schistosoma haematobium.

code

C124388

Concept_In_Subset

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C66830

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C61410

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C85491

Contributing_Source

CDISC

DEFINITION

A species of flatworms in the family Schistosomatidae with a strong oral sucker and a smaller posterior ventral sucker. Adult males are around 10 mm and females are 15 mm in length. The life cycle of S. haematobium involves snails as the intermediate host and humans as the definitive host. Within the body infestation is usual seen in the venous plexus of bladder, but it can also be found in the rectal venules.

FULL_SYN

SCHISTOSOMA HAEMATOBIUM

Schistosoma haematobium

label

Schistosoma haematobium

NCBI_Taxon_ID

6185

Preferred_Name

Schistosoma haematobium

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C124388

Semantic_Type

Animal

UMLS_CUI

C0036316

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C124285

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