We heard about tapeworms and gallstones when we were in Osteopathic college.
These larvae live in the tissues of various living animals, and, when swallowed by a suitable carnivorous animal, develop into adult tapeworms in the intestine.
A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man.
From results obtained at the Oklahoma Experiment Station in the treatment of tapeworms of sheep it would appear that the efficacy of the bluestone treatment against these parasites may be increased by the addition of tobacco.
Medicinal treatment for tapeworms in cattle is usually unsatisfactory, but the bluestone treatment used for stomach worms and mentioned above (p.
Both dogs and cats probably convey diphtheria, and both unquestionably often have within their intestinal tracts tapeworms that occasionally infect children.
From our food we likewise contract dangerous maladies such as tapeworms from uncooked meats and fish and the deadly trichina from raw hog meat.
The tapeworms that inhabit the intestines of animals, and sometimes of men, live in a stream of food; they are put to no trouble to obtain it.
We shall now begin to see the utility of the most conspicuous sign of life spoken of in the first chapter, namely, motion, for food must be gotten where it is; only tapewormsand similar animals swim in it.
Some of those now found in the kangaroo and the smaller marsupials may have been derived from our domestic animals; buttapeworms and other internal parasites have been met with in animals occupying regions wholly unsettled.
In this (the Beacons) district the tapeworms alone have been found and not a single strongyle.
Pellizzari, having explained that Marchi’s thirty-four tapeworms must all have arisen from the consumption of the Cysticercus of the ox, then goes on to speak of the prevalence of tapeworm in Florence, even in little children.
Certainly it can now no longer be said that “the symptoms created by tapeworms in the horse are of little or no consequence.
The tapeworms of the dog are not only numerous, but also particularly injurious, alike to their bearers and to mankind.
There can be little doubt that the presence of any considerable number of such comparatively large tapeworms must seriously incommode, if they do not actually prove fatal to their unfortunate hosts.
The tapeworms of birds are undoubtedly injurious to their bearers.
When one or more sexually-mature tapeworms have developed themselves within the human intestine, they are apt to give rise to a variety of unpleasant symptoms, more or less marked according to the habit or irritability of the patient.
Man becomes host for these two forms of tapeworms through eating measly pork or beef that is not properly cooked.
The immature and mature forms of tapeworms are parasites of vertebrate animals, but an invertebrate host is necessary for the completion of the life cycle of the fluke.
Tapeworms are formed by a chain of segments, joined together at their ends, and are flat or ribbon-shaped (Fig.
Palm mentions the fact of four tapeworms existing in one person; and Mongeal has made observations of a number of cases in which several teniae existed simultaneously in the stomach.
Kennedy reports cases in which tapeworms have been expelled from infants five, and five and one-half months old.
The tapeworms of the horse are relatively unimportant and not very common.
Finally, they may become infested with cystic tapeworms or the agamic stage of a strongyle (Strongylus edentatus).
At least ten different species of tapeworms have been found in the dog.
In the young or larval stage tapeworms live in other parts of the body of the host, and usually, indeed, in other hosts not of the same species as the host of the adult worm.
Of the parasitic flatworms the tapeworms are the best known.
The life-history of the othertapeworms which infest the various vertebrate animals is of this general type.
In the adult or fully developed stage the tapeworms live in the alimentary canal, holding on to its inner surface by hook-like clinging organs and being nourished by the already digested food by which they are bathed.
The intermediate hosts of these dog tapeworms include rabbits, sheep, mice, etc.
His conclusion was that their intestines were so solidly packed with tapeworms that starvation was "an absolute certainty.
He examined some birds and found "many hundreds" of tapeworms in every bird.
An adult male, trapped July 14 in the Cisco Lake Region, was badly infested withtapeworms in the middle part of the small intestine.
An adult female, taken July 19, was found to have many tapeworms in the intestine, many nematodes in the lung tissue, an infested liver, and a large number of nematodes in a cavity in the top of the skull.
It is plain that the grosser parasites of the human body, tapeworms and the like, could not be explained or understood without the help of feeding-experiments on animals.
He apparently tried to prove a relationship between the tapeworms and the locoed condition by feeding the extract of a loco plant to sheep, and thus showing its harmlessness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tapeworms" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
