Crossword-Solution: CYSTICERCUS
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| Cysticercus | n. | The larval form of a tapeworm, having the head and neck of a tapeworm attached to a saclike body filled with fluid; -- called also bladder worm, hydatid, and measle (as, pork measle). |
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| CYSTIC form of tapeworm | 1 answer |
| TAPEWORM, cystic form of the | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also,
the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many
fishes.
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Discharge
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Sentences with CYSTICERCUS (5)
The echinococcus, the cystic or larval stage of the echinococcus tapeworm of the dog, has been found in the eye of the horse, and a cysticercus is also reported.
Sometimes too the liver of a rabbit dead from some intentional or accidental bacterial infection is found at the post-mortem to be marked by fine yellowish streaks and small tubercles due to the embryos of _Tænia serrata_, while the cystic form (_Cysticercus pisiformis_) is often noted free in the peritoneal cavity, or invading the mesentery.
The larvæ (see Cysticercus) live in the flesh of various creatures, and when swallowed by another animal of the right species develop into the mature tapeworm in its intestine.
This larval form is known as a cysticercoid, in contradistinction to the bladder-like cysticercus of many other cestodes.
Like the _Cysticercus tenuicollis_, already described under the head of Rot, it consists of a thin membranous cyst, full or otherwise of serous fluid; but, unlike the aforementioned animal is studded over with groups of little velvety appendages or heads, each of which has a series of barbs projecting round the mouth.