cysticercus in English

noun
1
a larval tapeworm that is at a stage in which the scolex is inverted in a sac, and that is typically found encysted in the muscle tissue of the host.
The classic intestinal infection with Taenia solium results when humans ingest pork with viable cysticerci that exocyst in the small intestine.

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1. Her dog was infested cysticercus. She has to take it to see a veterinarian.

2. 11 The larval stage of certain tapeworms, resembling a cysticercus but having the scolex completely filling the enclosing cyst.

3. In 1983, Molinari et al. reported the first vaccine candidate against porcine cysticercosis using antigen from cysticercus cellulosae drawn out from naturally infected.

4. In addition, the nematodesGongylonema pulchrum, Hyostrongylus rubidus, Gnathostoma hispidum, Oesophagostomum sp., andTrichinella sp., the acanthocephalan speciesMacracanthorhynchus hirudinaceus, the intestinal flukeEchinochasmus perfoliatus (Trematoda) and the larval stage (Cysticercus tenuicollis, Echinococcus hidatidosus) of two tapeworm species (Taenia hydatigena, Echinococcus granulosus) (Cestoda) were recorded.