diphyllobothroid

English

Adjective

diphyllobothroid (not comparable)

  1. Similar to the tapeworms of genus Diphyllobothrium, especially those in which the scolex of the adult lacks suckers or hooks.
    • 1999, Edward K. Markell; David T. John; Wojciech A. Krotoski, Markell and Voge's Medical Parasitology, page 238:
      Infection of humans by plerocercoid larvae of various diphyllobothroid tapeworms belonging to the genus Spirometra is known as sparganosis.
    • 2012, Dongyou Liu, Molecular Detection of Human Parasitic Pathogens, page 293:
      To study the genetic relationships among diphyllobothroid tapeworms, other members of the Diphyllobothriidae are considered, with T. solium as the outgroup.
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