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What (who) is Tapeworm - definition
SUBCLASS OF WORMS
Tapeworm infection; Hexacanthe; Hexacanth; Tapeworm
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Tapeworm
·noun Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to Taenia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also, with hooks for adhesion to the walls of the intestines of the animals in which they are parasitic. The larvae (see Cysticercus) live in the flesh of various creatures, and when swallowed by another animal of the right species develop into the mature tapeworm in its intestine. ·see Illustration in Appendix.
tapeworm
¦ noun a parasitic flatworm with a long ribbon-like body, the adult of which lives in the intestines. [Class Cestoda: many species.]
tapeworm
(tapeworms)
A tapeworm is a long, flat parasite which lives in the stomach and intestines of animals or people.
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Eucestoda
Eucestoda, commonly referred to as tapeworms, is the larger of the two subclasses of flatworms in the class Cestoda (the other subclass is Cestodaria). Larvae have six posterior hooks on the scolex (head), in contrast to the ten-hooked Cestodaria. All tapeworms are endoparasites of vertebrates, living in the digestive tract or related ducts. Examples are the pork tapeworm (Taenia solium) with a human definitive host, and pigs as the secondary host, and Moniezia expansa, the definitive hosts of which are ruminants.
Examples of use of Tapeworm
1. With the cry of one who finds a great tapeworm coiled in his innards, I twigged.
2. According to legend, Callas‘s enormous weight loss came about because she deliberately swallowed a tapeworm.
3. According to the world‘s most–used online encyclopaedia, its population was devastated by a tapeworm outbreak ten years ago.
4. I have known society women who took their holidays in India, not for the landscape or culture, but for the hope of contracting a tapeworm.
5. So all the wheeler–dealers who cling to important people and feed on them like a tapeworm continued filing in and out and went about their business.