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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A secondary scolex or daughter-cyst developed within or from a scolex or cystic worm; a bladder-worm inclosed in another, as, in an echinococcus, the hydatid of Tænia, echinococcus. See cut under Tænia.

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