scolex

Noun

Meaning

The embryo produced directly from the egg in a metagenetic series, especially the larva of a tapeworm or other parasitic worm. See Illust. of Echinococcus.

One of the Scolecida.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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When the definitive host eats infested and raw or undercooked meat from an intermediate host, the worm's scolex pops out and attaches itself to the gut, and the adult tapeworm develops. Source: Internet

The larva makes its way to the herbivore's muscles and metamorphoses into an oval worm about convert long, with a scolex that is kept inside. Source: Internet

A members of the smaller group known as Cestodaria have no scolex, do not produce proglottids, and have body shapes like those of diageneans. Source: Internet

Hence, the most mature proglottids are furthest from the scolex. Source: Internet

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