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‖ cysticercus Zool.|sɪstɪˈsɜːkəs| Pl. -ci |-saɪ|. [mod.L., f. Gr. κύστις bladder + κέρκος tail. F. cysticerque.] The scolex or larva of a tape-worm in its encysted state; a hydatid.
1841–71T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. (ed. 4) 152 The discovery that the cystiform Entozoa, Cœnurus and Cysticercus.. are merely the Scoleces of ordinary Tape worms. 1875H. Walton Dis. Eye 24 The cysticercus, the..larval state of the..pork tape-worm, gains access to the human body by being swallowed in an earlier larval condition. Hence cystiˈcercal a., cystiˈcercoid a. and n., cysticerˈcoidal a.
1858Copland Dict. Pract. Med. III. ii. 1385 A portion of the Tæniæ pass through a true cysticercal (bladder-worm) stage. Ibid., True Cysticerci occur only in warm-blooded animals..and cysticercoid forms principally in cold-blooded animals. 1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. iv. 212 The dog devours the louse, and the Cysticercoid becomes a Tænia cucumerina in his intestine. |