Cysticercoid

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The larval stage of certain tapeworms, similar in appearance to a cysticercus, but having the scolex filling completely the enclosing cyst.

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metacestodemetacestode

Etymology

From cysticercus + -oid.

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