What is a tape worm?
Cestoda is a class of parasitic flatworms, commonly called tapeworms, that live in the digestive tract of vertebrates as adults and often in the bodies of various animals as juveniles. Ingestion by humans can cause infection. ChaCha!
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A tapeworm is a worm that is flattened like a tape measure and functions as an intestinal parasite, unable to live freely on its own but able to do so within an animal's gut. ChaCha!
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A tapeworm is the name for the parasitic flatworms forming the class Cestoda that spends its life living in a host. Tapeworms occur in humans in one of two forms. If ingested as eggs, they may develop into larvae that migrate out of the MORE?
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Tapeworms are parasitic worms that live in the intestines of some animals. Certain species of these tapeworms can infect humans.
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Tapeworm: name for the parasitic flatworms forming the class Cestoda. All tapeworms spend the adult phase of their lives MORE?
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Tapeworm infection usually occurs when you eat food or drink water contaminated with tapeworm eggs or larvae. Most people MORE?
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A tapeworm is a parasitic flat worm. The tapeworm has a long, flat body made up of a head, a neck, and a chain of segments MORE?
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A tapeworm is a parasitic worm that lives n the human digestive tract. It feeds on food consumed by the host.
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Any of various flat or tapelike worms of the class Cestoidea, lacking an alimentary canal, and parasitic when adult in the.. MORE
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