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Definition of Hooklets
1. hooklet [n] - See also: hooklet
Medical Definition of Hooklets
1. 1. Clawlike, retractile chitinous hooks that encircle or line the rostellum of the scolex of certain taenioid tapeworms for attachment to the intestinal mucosa, with the additional aid of suckers; the hooklets's can be withdrawn and the rostellum inverted when the tapeworm moves. Various arrangements and forms of the hooklets characterise the families of taenioid cestodes. 2. Hooklets's of degenerated scoleces of Echinococcus species in the fluids of the hydatid cyst. 3. The hooklets's of the oncosphere, by which it claws out of its membrane sheath after hatching and penetrates the host gut wall; these hooklets's can later be found in the cercomer of the procercoid or cysticercoid. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hooklets
Literary usage of Hooklets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Social Wasps: An Introduction to Their Anatomy and Physiology by Edward Latham Ormerod (1868)
"Mr. Newport* infers, from the occurrence of a smaller number of hooklets in the
weaker flying of the two sexes, that their number has a direct relation to ..."
2. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1901)
"(Fig. XX. 3). Cosmopolitan wherever the pig is a common article of diet, and
eaten in an imperfectly cooked condition. Scolex with two circles of hooklets; ..."
3. The Medical Diseases of Childhood by Nathan Oppenheim (1900)
"It has from twenty-two to twenty-eight hooklets about a rostellum and has four
suckers. Its embryo has six hooklets, and is enclosed in a double shell. ..."
4. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions by Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London (1845)
"cognisable only as the remains of the animal by the presence of the circle of
hooklets ; as in fig. 14. All the figures from fig. 5 to fig. ..."
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