See Also: hagiotherapy(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Schistosoma(medicine)
Schistosoma spindale(medicine)
Schistosoma protease(medicine)
Schistosoma mekongi(medicine)
Schistosoma mattheei(medicine)
Schistosoma malayensis(medicine)
Schistosoma japonicum(medicine)
Schistosoma intercalatum(medicine)

Schistosoma japonicum (medicine) and hagiotherapy (medicine)


Schistosoma japonicum (medicine)


schistosoma japonicum


A species of trematode worm that parasitises humans and that (like s. Mansoni) causes liver and gastrointestinal tract disease. See schistosomiasis.


hagiotherapy (medicine)


hagiotherapy
Treatment of the sick by contact with relics of the saints, visits to shrines, and Other religious observances.

Origin: G. Hagios, sacred