Definition of Scoleces

1. scolex [n] - See also: scolex

Medical Definition of Scoleces

1. Plural of scolex. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scoleces

scogged
scogging
scogs
scoinson
scoinson arch
scoinsons
scoke
scold
scolded
scolder
scolders
scolding
scoldingly
scoldings
scolds
scoleces (current term)
scoleciasis
scolecid
scolecida
scolecids
scoleciform
scolecite
scolecites
scolecoid
scolecology
scolecomorpha
scolex
scolexes
scolia
scolices

Literary usage of Scoleces

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

1. A Text-book of Practical Medicine: With Particular Reference to Physiology by Felix von Niemeyer (1883)
"There the microscopic embryo swells to a large vesicle, on whose inner wall a colony of young, immature taeniae or scoleces is ..."

2. A Text-book of Practical Medicine: With Particular Reference to Physiology by Felix von Niemeyer (1878)
"There the microscopic embryo swells to a large vesicle, on whose inner wall a colony of young, immature taeniae or scoleces is developed. ..."

3. Handbook of Meat Inspection by Robert von Ostertag (1904)
"This is based on the different specific gravity of the scoleces of the cysticerci and the muscle fibers and is practically as follows : Bladder worm ..."

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