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fluke
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fluke noun accident, blunder, bungle, chance good fortune, chance happening, chance misfortune, chance occurrence, error, fortuity, lucky situation, miscalculation, misinterpretation, misjudgment, misreading, misunderstanding, once in a lifetime occurrence, random achievement, random luck, random mistake, random success, stroke of bad luck, stroke of misfortune
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They are usually caused by trematode parasites usually using snails as their host.
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The most commonly found deformities are frogs or toads found with missing or truncated limbs, and although parasites occasionally cause limblessness in a frog, these deformities are almost never associated with the trematode species known to cause extra limbs," said Stanley Sessions, an amphibian specialist and professor of biology at Hartwick College, in Oneonta, New York.
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The helminths include soil-transmitted intestinal nematodes (roundworms), trematodes (flukes) and cestodes (tapeworms) (Table I).
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