cestode

/ses-tohd/US // ˈsɛs toʊd //UK // (ˈsɛstəʊd) //

绦虫,绦虫病,绦虫类,绦纶

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a parasitic platyhelminth or flatworm of the class Cestoda, which comprises the tapeworms.

adj.形容词 adjective

In Iceland, a cestode causes the death of a third part of the population.
There exists a singular cestode which bears the name of Echinococcus.
We have never opened one, large or small, lean or fat, which had not its intestines filled with cestode worms.
The cestode can scarcely be called a parasite under the first vesicular form.
An acaris, the Trichodectes, lives in the hair of young dogs and harbours the scolex of this cestode.