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Definition of Tapeworms

1. tapeworm [n] - See also: tapeworm

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tapeworms

Literary usage of Tapeworms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould (1898)
"It is quite possible for a number of tapeworms to exist simultaneously in the human body. ... mentions the fact of four tapeworms existing in one person ..."

2. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1913)
"Among the tapeworms parasitic in the intestinal canal of cats, the most important is: ... Cats arc also infected by the following other tapeworms: ..."

3. Sanitary Entomology; the Entomology of Disease, Hygiene and Sanitation: The by William Dwight Pierce (1921)
"About 100 species of tapeworms are known whose adult stages occur in man or domestic animals. Four of these, Dipylidium caninum (the double-pored tapeworm ..."

4. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1867)
"... Dr Cobbold proceeds to describe the tapeworms, first in their mature, and then in their hydatid state. As we formerly laid before our readers an account ..."

5. Animal Parasites and Human Disease by Asa Crawford Chandler (1918)
"In some respects the tapeworms are more degenerate than flukes, due to their invariably ... In general form the majority of tapeworms are very long ..."

6. Animal Parasites and Human Disease by Asa Crawford Chandler (1918)
"In some respects the tapeworms are more degenerate than flukes, due to their invariably ... In general form the majority of tapeworms are very long ..."

7. Animal Parasites and Human Disease by Asa Crawford Chandler (1918)
"CHAPTER XIII THE tapeworms General Structure. — Even more peculiar and remarkable in their structure and life than the flukes are the tapeworms. ..."

8. Animal Parasites and Human Disease by Asa Crawford Chandler (1922)
"In some respects the tapeworms are more degenerate than flukes, due to their invariably ... In general form the majority of tapeworms are very long ..."

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