1) Tapeworm part
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• (n.) The embryo produced directly from the egg in a metagenetic series, especially the larva of a tapeworm or other parasitic worm. See Illust. of Echinococcus. • (n.) One of the Scolecida.
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(from the article `flatworm`) Regeneration, although rare in the parasitic worms in general, does occur in the cestodes. Most tapeworms appear to be capable of regeneration from ...
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(sko´leks) the attachment organ (mouth) of a tapeworm.
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'Head' or holdfast organ of a tapeworm.
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Sco'lex noun ;
plural Scoleces . [ New Latin , from Greek
skw`lhx worm, grub.]
(Zoology) (a) The embryo produced directly from the egg in a metagenetic series, especially the larva of a tapeworm or other parasitic worm. See
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Type: Term Pronunciation: skō′leks, skō′le-sēz, skō′li-sēz Definitions: 1. The head or anterior end of a tapeworm attached by suckers, and frequently by rostellar hooks, to the wall of the intestine; it is formed within the hydatid cyst in Echinococcus, within a cysticercus in Taenia, a cysticercoid in Hym...
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The "head" of a tapeworm parasite, armed with hooks or suckers and used for attachment and locomotion.
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scolex (s), scoleces (pl) 1. The head of a tapeworm, with suckers or hooks that enable the parasitic worm to attach itself to its host. 2. The knoblike anterior end of a tapeworm, having suckers or hooklike parts that in the adult stage serve as organs of attachment to the host on which the tapeworm is parasitic. 3. The head of a tapeworm ...
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the head region of a cestode (tapeworm), which typically has suckers and/or hooks for attachment to the host
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