Tapeworm Synonyms

Tapeworm Sentence Examples

• In many instances the existence of a tapeworm may not cause any inconvenience to its host, and its presence may be only made.

• For twelve hours previously to its administration no food should be given, in order that the intestinal tract should be empty so as to expose the tapeworm to the full action of the drug.

• Whether this view is soundly based is discussed below; the fact remains, however, that a tapeworm is, with few and rare exceptions, not directly comparable at all points with a liver-fluke or indeed with any other organism.

• Unlike the tapeworm no intermediate host is required for the development of this worm.

• The tapeworm, Taenia saginata, throws off eleven proglottides a day during its mature stage, and if this rate of increase were maintained for a year the total weight of its progeny would be about 550 grammes.