Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
cestoid .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Cestoidea.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various
parasitic tapeworms of the classCestoda - adjective Of or characteristic of such creatures
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun ribbonlike flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The echinococcus is a tiny cestode which is the factor in the production of the well-known hydatid cysts which may be found in any part of the body.
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The echinococcus is a tiny cestode which is the factor in the production of the well-known hydatid cysts which may be found in any part of the body.
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Phenotypic manipulation by the cestode parasite Schistocephalus solidus of its intermediate host, Gasterosteus aculeatus, the threespine stickleback.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Phenotypic manipulation by the cestode parasite Schistocephalus solidus of its intermediate host, Gasterosteus aculeatus, the threespine stickleback.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Phenotypic manipulation by the cestode parasite Schistocephalus solidus of its intermediate host, Gasterosteus aculeatus, the threespine stickleback.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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The latter conclusion is supported by the phylogeography (relationship between genetic identity and geographic distribution) of the '' Paranoplocephala arctica '' species complex, a cestode parasite of '' Dicrostonyx '' spp., indicating that two subclades probably survived the LGM with their host in the Canadian High Arctic [7].
Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels 2009
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The head or scolex is adorned with hooks and suckers that enable the cestode to attach to the gut lining.
Platyhelminthes 2007
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Trematode & cestode infections from high to nil, depending on the particular excreta, usage of effluent and other local circumstances
Chapter 6 1996
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If these are carefully sectioned there may usually be found at the center the remains of certain cestode larvæ whose presence in the oyster caused it to deposit the nacreous layers that make up the pearl.
Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases Rennie Wilbur Doane
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Lightowlers MW, Gauci CG, Chow C, Drew DR, Gauci SM, et al. (2003) Molecular and genetic characterisation of the host-protective oncosphere antigens of taeniid cestode parasites.
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