Pathology · Digestive System · Hard

Cestode

Meaning: Tapeworm, a flat segmented parasitic worm that lives in the intestine.

In practice: Eating undercooked pork can transmit a cestode infection that lives in the intestine.

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Which word means: Describing a cyst formed by the larval stage of the Echinococcus tapeworm.

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