Medical Definition of Plerocercoid
1. A stage in the development of a tapeworm following the procercoid stage, which develops in an animal serving as the second or subsequent intermediate host; a wormlike nonsegmented larva with an invaginated scolex at one end, usually unencysted in the flesh of various fishes, reptiles, or amphibians, the ingestion of which transmits the parasite to the final host. See: Diphyllobothrium latum. Origin: G. Pleres, full, complete, + kerkos, tail (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plerocercoid
Literary usage of Plerocercoid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"209.—A piece of the body wall of the Burbot, Lota vit/gan's. The tangential
section has exposed the muscles of Ihe trunk, with a plerocercoid of ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"plerocercoid. (After BR.U N.) strated this cycle in the dog and cat, as well as
the human being, three students presenting themselves to him voluntarily for ..."
3. Text-book of Meat Hygiene: With Special Consideration to Ante-mortem and by Richard Heinrich Edelmann, John Robbins Mohler (1908)
"The plerocercoid of the bothriocephalus latus (broad tapeworm of man) lives in
the muscles and the various viscera of the pike, turbot, perch, trout, ..."
4. Human Parasitology: With Notes on Bacteriology, Mycology, Laboratory by Damaso de Rivas (1920)
"When the fish are eaten, the plerocercoid develops into a tape-worm, ...
as previously stated, is the plerocercoid found in the muscle and organs of the ..."
5. Animal Parasites and Human Disease by Asa Crawford Chandler (1918)
"plerocercoid type, ie, they have long wormlike bodies with an ... The larvae,
which are of the plerocercoid type, develop in the muscles of these fish. bryo ..."
6. A Text-book of Pathology and Pathological Anatomy by Hans Schmaus, James Ewing (1902)
"The young form is a plerocercoid, made up of a scolex and a solid tail-piece,
... L•nknown intermediate host (plerocercoid). FiG. 154. ..."
7. Diagnosis of Protozoa and Worms Parasitic in Man by Robert William Hegner, William Walter Cort (1921)
"... further development into plerocercoid in muscles of fresh-water fish; man gets
infestation by ingesting plerocercoid from raw or partly cooked fish; ..."
8. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"209.—A piece of the body wall of the Burbot, Lota vit/gan's. The tangential
section has exposed the muscles of Ihe trunk, with a plerocercoid of ..."
9. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"plerocercoid. (After BR.U N.) strated this cycle in the dog and cat, as well as
the human being, three students presenting themselves to him voluntarily for ..."
10. Text-book of Meat Hygiene: With Special Consideration to Ante-mortem and by Richard Heinrich Edelmann, John Robbins Mohler (1908)
"The plerocercoid of the bothriocephalus latus (broad tapeworm of man) lives in
the muscles and the various viscera of the pike, turbot, perch, trout, ..."
11. Human Parasitology: With Notes on Bacteriology, Mycology, Laboratory by Damaso de Rivas (1920)
"When the fish are eaten, the plerocercoid develops into a tape-worm, ...
as previously stated, is the plerocercoid found in the muscle and organs of the ..."
12. Animal Parasites and Human Disease by Asa Crawford Chandler (1918)
"plerocercoid type, ie, they have long wormlike bodies with an ... The larvae,
which are of the plerocercoid type, develop in the muscles of these fish. bryo ..."
13. A Text-book of Pathology and Pathological Anatomy by Hans Schmaus, James Ewing (1902)
"The young form is a plerocercoid, made up of a scolex and a solid tail-piece,
... L•nknown intermediate host (plerocercoid). FiG. 154. ..."
14. Diagnosis of Protozoa and Worms Parasitic in Man by Robert William Hegner, William Walter Cort (1921)
"... further development into plerocercoid in muscles of fresh-water fish; man gets
infestation by ingesting plerocercoid from raw or partly cooked fish; ..."
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