Scolex is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 87 anagrams from letters in scolex (celosx).
First recorded in 1850-55, scolex is from the Greek word skṓlēx worm
The embryo loses its spicules and is transformed into the larval form or scolex.
The scolex is distinguishable from that of the other human tape-worms in possessing a triple circle of hooks.
The scolex is about the size of a pin-head, and is surrounded by four sucking discs, but has no hooklets (Fig. 96).
In this form the scolex is contained in a sac of connective tissue induced by the presence of the parasite.
The scolex or higher larval stage of growth forms the well-known pork measle or Cysticercus (tel) cellulos of authors.
The proglottides are sexually complete individuals, derived from the scolex by budding.
This mother is usually called the head of the tnia, or more properly the scolex.
As obtains in Cysticercus fasciolaris of the mouse the scolex of Tetr.
This vesicle, of a milky-white colour, and filled with liquid, is the scolex.
The scolex has long been known, and was regarded as a distinct parasite, with the name of Cysticercus cellulos.