VPA 211: General Veterinary Parasitology and Helminthology (3+1)

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

• Digestive system opens at mouth with oral sucker, followed by muscular pharynx then oesophagus.
• Oesophagus leads to two branched caeca ends in a blind manner. There is no anus in trematodes. The absorption and digestion may occur through suctorial mouth, muscular pharynx,extra-corporeal digestion or by pinocytosis in trematodes.