• (n.) The larval stage of a tapeworm (Taenia coenurus) which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as water brain, vertigo, staggers or gid.
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Former generic name, now used to designate larval forms of taenioid cestodes in which a bladder is formed with a number of invaginated scoleces developing within; distinguished from a hydatid cyst by the absence of free-floating daughter cyst colonies budded off within the bladder; Coenurus larvae are found in members of the genus Multiceps. ... Or...
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The larval stage of Multiceps, the tapeworm commonly found in the brain of sheep, goats and other ruminants in which several scolices bud from an internal germinative membrane, but none of which is enclosed in an internal secondary cyst.
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Type: Term Pronunciation: sē-nū′rŭs Definitions: 1. Former generic name, now used to designate larval forms of taenioid cestodes in which a bladder is formed with a number of invaginated scoleces developing within; distinguished from a hydatid cyst by the absence of free-floating daughter cyst colonies budded off within the bla...
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