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Definition of Scolex
1. n. The embryo produced directly from the egg in a metagenetic series, especially the larva of a tapeworm or other parasitic worm. See Illust. of Echinococcus.
Definition of Scolex
1. Noun. The structure at the rear end of a tapeworm which, in the adult, has suckers and hooks by which it attaches itself to a host. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scolex
1. the knoblike head of a tapeworm [n -LECES or -LICES]
Medical Definition of Scolex
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Origin: NL, from Gr. Worm, grub.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scolex
Literary usage of Scolex
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1895)
"In the stomach of the final host the scolex loses the caudal vesicle by its ...
96 Ga small remnant of the bladder is still seen attached to the scolex, ..."
2. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"Diagram of transformation of a scolex into a daughter cyst (l to 3) : I, scolex
in brood capsule ; 2, liquefaction of scolex ; 3, daughter cyst; ..."
3. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1901)
"A large number of other cases are known in which the invaginated scolex ...
The scolex is commencing to evaginate ; it rises up from the bottom of the ..."
4. The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny, John Bostock, Henry Thomas Riley (1857)
"scolex is used for the same medicinal purposes as ... Native scolex is also
procured by scraping the copper ore of which we are about to speak. CHAP. 29. ..."
5. On Animal and Vegetable Parasites of the Human Body: A Manual of Their by Friedrich Küchenmeister (1857)
"These walls pass internally into the neck of the scolex, directly over the spot
whence the scolex sprung. On the external surface a funnel-shaped but narrow ..."
6. On Animal and Vegetable Parasites of the Human Body: A Manual of Their by Friedrich Küchenmeister (1857)
"The embryo then increases and becomes enlarged by the growth of the scolex, which
it holds enclosed within the distended walls of its body. ..."
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