Crossword-Solution: TAPEWORM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tapeworm | n. | 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 for adhesion to the walls of the intestines of the animals in which they are parasitic. The larvae (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. See Illustration in Appendix. |
Anagrams
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| TAPEWORM | anagram | MOPWATER |
We have 12 clues for the answer “TAPEWORM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CESTODE | 1 answer |
| LONG worm | 1 answer |
| long flat parasitic worm living in the intestines of vertebrates | 1 answer |
| ribbonlike flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates | 1 answer |
| taenia | 2 answers |
| CERTAIN PARASITE | 2 answers |
| RIBBON-like intestinal worm | 3 answers |
| intestinal parasite | 3 answers |
| CESTODA | 5 answers |
| flatworm | 6 answers |
| intestinal worm | 12 answers |
| Parasite | 42 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with TAPEWORM (5)
Twiggs describes a case in which a tapeworm 36 feet long was expelled from a child of four; and Fabre mentions the expulsion of eight teniae from a child.
The peculiar effects of a tapeworm are exaggerated appetite and thirst, nausea, headaches, vertigo, ocular symptoms, cardiac palpitation, and Mursinna has even observed a case of trismus, or lockjaw, due to taenia solium.
There is a record of an instance of cardiac pulsation rising to 240 per minute, which ceased upon the expulsion of a large tapeworm.
Fontanelle presented to the Royal Academy of Medicine of Paris several yards of tapeworm passed from the urethra of a man of fifty-three.
The following is a quotation from the British Medical Journal: "I have at present a patient passing in his urine a worm-like body, not unlike a tapeworm as far as the segments and general appearance are concerned, the length of each segment being about 1/4 inch, the breadth rather less; sometimes 1 1/2 segments are joined together.
Quotes with TAPEWORM (3)
A certain beauty in the world is no mark of God's favor, said Mr. Huss. There is no beauty one may not balance by an equal ugliness. The warthog and the hyena, the tapeworm and the stinkhorn, are equally God's creations. Nothing you have said points to anything but a cold indifference towards us of this order in which we live. Beauty happens; it is not given. Pain, suffering, happiness; there is no heed. Only in the heart of man burns the fire of righteousness.
Fireflies out on a warm summer's night, seeing the urgent, flashing, yellow-white phosphorescence below them, go crazy with desire; moths cast to the winds an enchantment potion that draws the opposite sex, wings beating hurriedly, from kilometers away; peacocks display a devastating corona of blue and green and the peahens are all aflutter; competing pollen grains extrude tiny tubes that race each other down the female flower's orifice to the waiting egg below; luminescent s…
And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, WP.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1998–2005).