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Tapeworm

Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to Taenia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also, with hooks

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Echinococcus 76% connected

A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in…

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Taenia 76% connected

A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm.

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Flatworm 76% connected

Any worm belonging to the Plathelminthes; also, sometimes applied to the planarians.

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Cestode 92% connected

Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea.

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