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Definition of Coenurus
1. a tapeworm larva [n -RI]
Medical Definition of Coenurus
1. Former generic name, now used to designate larval forms of taenioid cestodes in which a bladder is formed with a number of invaginated scoleces developing within; distinguished from a hydatid cyst by the absence of free-floating daughter cyst colonies budded off within the bladder; Coenurus larvae are found in members of the genus Multiceps. Origin: G. Koinos, common, + oura, tail (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coenurus
Literary usage of Coenurus
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1. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"This cystic stage is passed in the tissue of some solid organ, such as the liver
or the muscles ; but in the particular case of Taenia coenurus, ..."
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