tapeworms in English

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a parasitic flatworm, the adult of which lives in the intestine of humans and other vertebrates. It has a long ribbonlike body with many segments that can become independent, and a small head bearing hooks and suckers.
The cestodes, or tapeworms , differ in a number of ways from other flatworms.

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1. Tapeworms (Cestodes) Cestoda or tapeworms are the most specialised of the Platyhelminthe parasites

2. Tapeworms: Cestoda Physical Characteristics

3. Cestoda - Tapeworms Tapeworms live in the gastrointestinal tract feeding on the passing food. The most common tapeworm species in humans are fish, dwarf, beef and pork tapeworms

4. Cestoda, class Cestoda - tapeworms echinococcus - tapeworms whose larvae are parasitic in humans and domestic animals taenia - tapeworms parasitic in humans which uses the pig as its intermediate host

5. Class Cestoda Common name: tapeworms Overview Tapeworms are endoparasites of vertebrates, often using invertebrates as intermediate hosts

6. Tapeworms: Taenias - fish tapeworm, beef tapeworm, and pork tapeworm.

7. There's a lot of mythology surrounding tapeworms.

8. Causal Agents: The Cestodes (tapeworms) Taenia saginata (beef tapeworm) and T

9. Treatment for tapeworms can also start at this age.

10. In earlier centuries, tapeworms and threadworms were regularly found in the intestine.

11. Cestodes are tapeworms or flatworms, which are acoelomates and obligates parasites.

12. Cestode Groups Large Animals Adult Tapeworms Anoplocephala(equine) Moniezia(ruminants) Larval Tapes (condemnations) Taeniasaginata(cattle) Taeniasolium(swine) Small Animals Adult Tapeworms Taeniapisiformis(dogs) Taeniataeniaformis(cats) Echinococcusgranulosus(dogs) Dipylidiumcaninum(dogs, cats) Mesocestoidessp.(dogs, cats)

13. Lacking intestines: Tapeworms are one example of Anenterous creatures that do not have intestines

14. New Latin Cestoda, taxonomic group comprising tapeworms, ultimately from Greek kestos girdle

15. Cestode definition, a parasitic platyhelminth or flatworm of the class Cestoda, which comprises the tapeworms

16. Cestodes or tapeworms are the members of the class Cestoda of the phylum Platyhelminthes

17. I am bound to the unknown and neglected Stuart-Murrays by spiralling tapeworms of genetic material.

18. ‘The Cestoda, or tapeworms, are intestinal parasites in vertebrates, and they also show anatomical and life history modifications for parasitism.’ More example sentences ‘The medically important flatworms are further divided into the flukes and tapeworms (Cestoda).’

19. SENTINEL SPECTRUM Chews (milbemycin oxime, lufenuron, and praziquantel) gives protection against 6 different parasites including tapeworms

20. Cestoda [ses-to´dah] a subclass of Cestoidea comprising the true tapeworms, which have a head (scolex) and segments (proglottids)

21. Protein separation techniques have been utilized in recent years as alternative means of differentiating species and strains of tapeworms.

22. Cestode definition: any parasitic flatworm of the class Cestoda, which includes the tapeworms Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

23. Cestoda - tapeworms class Cestoda helminth, parasitic worm - worm that is parasitic on the intestines of vertebrates especially roundworms and tapeworms and flukes phylum Platyhelminthes, Platyhelminthes - flatworms cestode, tapeworm - ribbonlike flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates family

24. Adult tapeworm infection is the infection of the digestive tract by parasitic flatworms called cestodes or tapeworms.

25. Anthelmintics are a type of medicine that kills helminths. Helminths are worm-like parasites such as flukes, roundworms, and tapeworms

26. 11 The larval stage of certain tapeworms, resembling a cysticercus but having the scolex completely filling the enclosing cyst.

27. EuCestoda, commonly referred to as tapeworms, are the larger of the two subclasses of flatworms in the class Cestoda (the other subclass is Cestodaria)

28. Commonly known as tapeworms, Cestodes are a type of parasitic worm that can be found in the gastrointestinal tract of their hosts (definitive hosts)

29. Nearly all of the cestodes, or tapeworms (class Cestoda in the phylum Platyhelminthes, the flatworms), are parasitic as adults in the intestinal tract of vertebrates

30. Local fish always carry parasites - not just the external ones which may respond to treatment, but internal ones such as tapeworms.

31. Ascarids, also known as roundworms, are parasitic intestinal worms. Among the worms affecting dogs (i.e., hookworms, tapeworms, whipworms), Ascarids are the most common

32. In biology, Cestoda is the class of parasitic flatworms, called cestodes or tapeworms, that live in the digestive tract of vertebrates as adults and often in the bodies of various animals as

33. Cestoda or tapeworms are the most specialised of the Platyhelminthe parasites. All cestodes have at least one, and sometimes more than one, secondary or intermediate host as well as their primary host

34. Known parasites of this species include the tapeworms Grillotia smaris-gora, G. angeli, and Christianella minuta, the fluke Pseudocotyle squatinae, the monogenean Leptocotyle minor, and the isopod Aega rosacea.

35. Cestoda a phylum of the Platyhelminthes containing the parasitic tapeworms, the adults of which are intestinal parasites of vertebrates. They have complex LIFE CYCLES usually involving intermediate hosts that are preyed upon by the primary host which thus becomes infected.

36. Cestode worms, commonly also known as 'flat' worms or tapeworms, are an important class of endoparasitic organisms. In order to complete their life cycle, they infect intermediate and definitive hosts in succession, through oral ingestion of eggs or larvae, respectively.

37. Medical definition of Cestoda: a class of the phylum Platyhelminthes comprising the tapeworms and including dorsoventrally flattened parasitic usually segmented flatworms without cilia that lack a digestive tract and typically consist of a differentiated scolex and a chain of proglottides each including a set of reproductive organs.

38. Darkfield Digital Image Gallery Acanthocephala (Spiny-Headed Worm) Members of the phylum Acanthocephala are entirely endoparasitic, but when compared to other invertebrate parasites such as the roundworms (phylum Nematoda) and tapeworms (phylum Platyhelminthes, class Cestoda), they are relatively rare.However, Acanthocephalans have succeeded by infiltrating niches within every …

39. Tapeworms (Cestoda) are a highly diversified group of ubiquitous endoparasites that generally have a two-phase life cycle: vertebrates serve as final hosts and all orders may utilize arthropods, other invertebrates or even vertebrates as first intermediate hosts with the sole exception of the Caryophyllidea, whose eggs only infect oligocheate annelids.

40. Cestoda Name Homonyms Cestoda Common names Cestoda in Danish tapeworms in English bendelmakkar in Nynorsk, Norwegian bendelormer in Norwegian Bokmål guorká in Northern Sami Bandwürmer in German Cestoden in German bandmaskar in Swedish bendelormar in Nynorsk, Norwegian cestodes in English lintwormen in Dutch