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tapeworm
[ teyp-wurm ]
noun
- any of various flat or tapelike worms of the class Cestoidea, lacking an alimentary canal, and parasitic when adult in the alimentary canal of humans and other vertebrates: the larval and adult stages are usually in different hosts.
tapeworm
/ ˈteɪpˌwɜːm /
noun
- See taenia, echinococcusany parasitic ribbon-like flatworm of the class Cestoda, having a body divided into many egg-producing segments and lacking a mouth and gut. The adults inhabit the intestines of vertebrates See also echinococcus taenia
tapeworm
/ tāp′wûrm′ /
- See cestode
tapeworm
- A worm with a long, flat body that can live in the human intestines as a parasite . Infestation with a tapeworm usually occurs as the result of eating raw meat or fish that contains the immature form of the worm.
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"Health-care costs in this country are a tapeworm of American business," he continued.
(a) Flatworms are sometimes parasitic, examples being the tapeworm and liver fluke.
Such is seen in the life history of the liver fluke, a flatworm which kills sheep, and in the tapeworm.
If man eats raw or undercooked pork containing these worms, he may become a host for the tapeworm.
Another common tapeworm parasitic on man lives part of its life as an embryo within the muscles of cattle.
Strobila, stro-bī′la, n. a discomedusan at the stage succeeding the scyphistoma: a segmented tapeworm.
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