Crossword-Solution: SCOLEX
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scolex | n. | The embryo produced directly from the egg in a metagenetic series, especially the larva of a tapeworm or other parasitic worm. See Illust. of Echinococcus. |
| Scolex | n. | One of the Scolecida. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “SCOLEX”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Tapeworm part | 1 answer |
| headlike part of a tapeworm | 1 answer |
| CESTODA embryo stage | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SCOLEX (5)
When swallowed by a pig or man these shells are digested and the embryos migrate (travel) to various parts of the body, where they change to Cysticerci or "Measles." Each contains a scolex or tape-worm.
When meat, improperly cooked and containing "measles," is eaten, the cyst is dissolved in the human stomach and the free scolex or head attaches itself to the intestinal mucous membrane and grows into a tapeworm.
How far regeneration may take place in the scolex, or young proglottids, is not known, but it is not improbable that some of the abnormal forms that have been described may be due to regeneration.
Linstow) 343 248 _Tania confusa._ (After Guyer) 344 249 _Tania confusa._ (After Ward) 344 250 _Tania echinococcus_ 345 251 _Echinococcus veterinorum._ (After Leuckart) 347 252 } 252A} Diagrams of mode of formation of brood capsule and scolices (Stephens) 348 253 Section through an invaginated echinococcus scolex.
The alimentary canal consists of a short fore-gut, which is frequently provided with a muscular pharynx, and of a simple forked or branched mid-gut; there is neither a hind-gut nor an anus; in one class, the Cestodes, the alimentary canal has entirely disappeared except for muscular remnants in the scolex.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1988).