Cysticercoid meaning

sĭs'tĭ-sûr'koid
The larval stage of certain tapeworms, resembling a cysticercus but having the scolex completely filling the enclosing cyst.
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Of or like a cysticercus.
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The larva of certain tapeworms, similar to a cysticercus but having a much smaller bladder.
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The larval stage of certain tapeworms, resembling a cysticercus but having the scolex completely filling the enclosing cyst.
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Origin of cysticercoid

cysticerc(us) –oid

Sentence Examples

  • Eggs then infect an intermediate host, where a larval tapeworm grows (cysticercoid, cysticercus hydatid cyst, etc.

  • When swallowed by the final host such a " cysticercoid" larva evaginates its scolex, throws off its hooked vesicular tail, and begins to bud off proglottides at its free end (fig.

  • The evolution of the cysticercoid, cysticercus and other forms of larvae is a varied adaptive phenomenon.

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