Cestode is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 156 anagrams from letters in cestode (cdeeost).
From the New Latin word Cestoda, dating back to 1830-40. See cestus1, -ode1
Several other cestode parasites of domestic animals are believed to develop their intermediate stage in certain arthropods.
We have never opened one, large or small, lean or fat, which had not its intestines filled with cestode worms.
In Pruners case, which is by no means unique, we have seen that two distinct species of cestode may coexist in the human bearer.
The cestode can scarcely be called a parasite under the first vesicular form.
Every experimenter is more or less familiar with the cestode larv (C. pisiformis) found wandering in the abdominal cavity.
The variations in the character of cestode proglottides is practically infinite.
Various tapeworm or cestode infections are contracted by eating meat containing the parasite.
In Iceland, a cestode causes the death of a third part of the population.
The papilla itself now becomes moulded into a cestode head, which however is developed in an inverted position.
An acaris, the Trichodectes, lives in the hair of young dogs and harbours the scolex of this cestode.
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