Medical Definition of Scoleces
1. Plural of scolex. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scoleces
Literary usage of Scoleces
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Practical Medicine: With Particular Reference to Physiology by Felix von Niemeyer (1883)
"There the microscopic embryo swells to a large vesicle, on whose inner wall a
colony of young, immature taeniae or scoleces is ..."
2. A Text-book of Practical Medicine: With Particular Reference to Physiology by Felix von Niemeyer (1878)
"There the microscopic embryo swells to a large vesicle, on whose inner wall a
colony of young, immature taeniae or scoleces is developed. ..."
3. Handbook of Meat Inspection by Robert von Ostertag (1904)
"This is based on the different specific gravity of the scoleces of the cysticerci
and the muscle fibers and is practically as follows : Bladder worm ..."