Taber's Medical Dictionary
Cestoda
(ses-tōd′ă )
[L. cestus, fr Gr. kestos, girdle]
A subclass of the class Cestoidea, phylum Platyhelminthes, which includes the tapeworms, having a scolex and a chain of segments (proglottids) (e.g., Taenia, intestinal parasites of humans and other vertebrates).
Citation
Venes, Donald, editor. "Cestoda." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 25th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2025. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/754222/all/Cestoda.
Cestoda. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/754222/all/Cestoda. Accessed April 18, 2025.
Cestoda. (2025). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (25th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/754222/all/Cestoda
Cestoda [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. [cited 2025 April 18]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/754222/all/Cestoda.
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