scolex
Noun
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Noun
scolex (plural scolices)
- (zoology) The structure at the front end of a tapeworm which, in the adult, has suckers and hooks by which it attaches itself to a host.
- 1859 Robert Bentley Todd - The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology
- The head, with the circle of hooklets and the four suckers, is then formed at the anterior part of the embryo, constituting now the scolex of Van Beneden.
- 1859 Robert Bentley Todd - The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology
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