Definition of Cysticerci

1. Noun. (plural of cysticercus) ¹

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Definition of Cysticerci

1. cysticercus [n] - See also: cysticercus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cysticerci

cystic hyperplasia
cystic hyperplasia of the breast
cystic kidney
cystic liver metastases
cystic lymph node
cystic lymphangiectasis
cystic mastitis
cystic medial necrosis
cystic node
cystic papillomatous craniopharyngioma
cystic polyp
cystic vein
cysticerci (current term)
cysticercoid
cysticercoids
cysticercoses
cysticercosis
cysticercus
cysticercus disease
cysticule
cysticules
cystid
cystidean
cystideans
cystides
cystidia
cystidium

Literary usage of Cysticerci

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry for the Year by United States Bureau of Animal Industry (1913)
"Decomposition of the meat does not necessarily destroy the vitality of cysticerci, as they have been found still alive in badly decomposed meat. ..."

2. Handbook of meat inspection by Robert Ostertag, Earley Vernon Wilcox (1907)
"(c) Calcified cysticerci. The cysticerci which occur in the musculature of the hog ... The size of calcified cysticerci varies, according to the 'stage of ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1864)
"Extensive Development of cysticerci in the Human Body.—Pierre Massot, aged 77, was admitted into the Hotel-Dieu at Lyons in November, 1862. with pulmonary ..."

4. Handbook of the diagnosis and treatment of skin diseases by Arthur Van Harlingen (1889)
"cysticerci of the Skin. (Sis'-ti-ser-see.} Several cases have been reported ... The tumors caused by the presence of cysticerci in the skin may be mistaken ..."

5. A Manual of general pathology: Designed as an Introduction to the Practice by Joseph Frank Payne (1888)
"Minute cysticerci, or measles in pork, natural size (after HKI.LER). It two or three months to attain this size, and it is supposed that it may requires ..."

6. The Pathology, diagnosis and treatment of intra-cranial growths by Philip Coombs Knapp (1891)
"They usually lie upon the brain, compressing it, and they may give rise to softening of the contiguous brain substance. cysticerci may assume the ordinary ..."

7. Annual Report of the New York Zoological Society by New York Zoological Society (1903)
"cysticerci IN WILD RUMINANTS. BY W. REID BLAIR, DVS WHILE the tapeworm in its adult state has been rarely met with among our wild ruminants, its embryo or ..."

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