A genus of parasitic flatworms; a distoma organism (Latin singular form).
Latin singular form of distoma, using the -um neuter singular ending. This is the formal Latinized version used in scientific nomenclature.
Scientists still use Latin endings in taxonomy—'Distomum' is singular, 'Distoma' is plural, showing how parasitology preserved Latin grammar even as modern science moved away from it.
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