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Definition of Proglottides
1. proglottis [n] - See also: proglottis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proglottides
Literary usage of Proglottides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Animal and Vegetable Parasites of the Human Body: A Manual of Their by Friedrich Küchenmeister (1857)
"Although the passage of proglottides without faeces occurs sometimes, even with
Tania ... The proglottides adhering to the naked body in the trowsers, ..."
2. Text-book of General Pathology and Pathological Anatomy by Richard Thoma (1896)
"Natural size. remaining segments, or proglottides, which spring from the first
segment and develop both male and female sexual organs. ..."
3. Public sanitation, and other papers: And Other Papers by Clement Adelbert Whiting (1916)
"The proglottides occupy somewhat the same relationship to the scolex that ...
The proglottides are continually produced by the scolex and those which are ..."
4. Diseases of Metabolism and of the Blood: Animal Parasited, Toxicology by Richard Clarke Cabot, Julius Lincoln Salinger (1910)
"However, I never begin a tape-worm treatment until after the presence of the
parasite has been proven by the passage of proglottides or the eggs in the ..."