tapeworm

/teyp-wurm/US // ˈteɪpˌwɜrm //UK // (ˈteɪpˌwɜːm) //

绦虫病,绦虫,绦虫病患者,有线虫

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any of various flat or tapelike worms of the class Cestoidea, lacking an alimentary canal, and parasitic when adult in the alimentary canal of humans and other vertebrates: the larval and adult stages are usually in different hosts.

"Health-care costs in this country are a tapeworm of American business," he continued.
(a) Flatworms are sometimes parasitic, examples being the tapeworm and liver fluke.
Such is seen in the life history of the liver fluke, a flatworm which kills sheep, and in the tapeworm.
If man eats raw or undercooked pork containing these worms, he may become a host for the tapeworm.
Another common tapeworm parasitic on man lives part of its life as an embryo within the muscles of cattle.
Strobila, stro-bī′la, n. a discomedusan at the stage succeeding the scyphistoma: a segmented tapeworm.