Cestode meaning

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Any of a class (Cestoda) of parasitic flatworms, with a ribbonlike body and no intestinal canal; tapeworm.
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Of such a worm.
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Any of various parasitic flatworms of the class Cestoda, having a long flat body that usually has a specialized organ of attachment at one end (the scolex). Cestodes may consist of a single segment or be divided into numerous identical rectangular segments. Food is absorbed through the outer covering of the body. Cestodes inhabit the liver and digestive tract of many vertebrate animals and also affect some invertebrates. They can attain a length of over 15 m (49 ft).
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Any of various parasitic tapeworms of the class Cestoda.
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Of or characteristic of such creatures.
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Origin of cestode

  • From New Latin Cestōda class name from Latin cestus belt from Greek kestos cestus1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Cestode Sentence Examples

  • In such an event, a Cestode cannot replace the injured or severed portion.

  • The Elasmobranchs swallow infected molluscs or fish; pike and trout devour smaller fry; birds pick up sticklebacks, insects and worms which contain Cestode larvae; and man lays himself open to infection by eating the uncooked or partially prepared flesh of many animals.

  • On this view, therefore, at least two asexual generations (embryo and scolex) alternate with a sexual one (proglottides); and in the case of Staphylocystis the cyst contains two asexually produced generations, so that in such forms three stages (embryo, primary scolex-buds, secondary scolices) intervene between the proglottis of a Cestode and that of its offspring.

  • We therefore regard the body of a Cestode as a single organism within which the gonads have become segmented, and the segmentation of the body as a secondary phenomenon associated with diffuse osmotic feeding in the narrow intestinal canal.

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