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tapeworm) The life cycle of the pork tapeworm Taenia solium. If a person eats pork from an infected pig that has not been properly cooked, the cysticercus attaches to the intestine and develops into an adult tapeworm. The tapeworm is a hermaphrodite and fertilizes itself, releasing proglottis, each of which may contain as many as 40,000 embryos encased in separate capsules. If the embryos are eaten by a pig, they bore from the pig's intestine into the bloodstream which carries them to the muscles, where they may be eaten by a human and the cycle continues. Any of various parasitic flatworms of the class Cestoda. They lack digestive and sense organs, can reach 15 m/50 ft in length, and attach themselves to the host's intestines by means of hooks and suckers. Tapeworms are made up of hundreds of individual segments, each of which develops into a functional hermaphroditic reproductive unit capable of producing numerous eggs. The larvae of tapeworms usually reach humans in imperfectly cooked meat or fish, causing anaemia and intestinal disorders. |
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Tapeworm was nephew and heir of old Marshal Tiptoff, who has been introduced in this story as General Tiptoff, just before Waterloo, who was Colonel of the --th regiment in which Major Dobbin served, and who died in this year full of honours, and of an aspic of plovers' eggs; when the regiment was graciously given by his Majesty to Colonel Sir Michael O'Dowd, K. He was fond of inviting them to tea; and, though vowing they never got a look in with him at the cakes and muffins, for it was the fashion to believe that his corpulence pointed to a voracious appetite, and his voracious appetite to tapeworms, they accepted his invitations with real pleasure. And tapeworms securely their bowels digest; |
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