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DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM

Specialty Definition: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM

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Health

A genus of tapeworm containing several species which occurs in the intestine of fish, birds, and mammals including man. Infection in humans is usually by eating uncooked fish. The larval stage is known as sparganum. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM

Specialty definitions using "DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM": DiphyllobothriasisSparganosis, Sparganum. (references)

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Commercial Usage: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM

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References

  • The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Diphyllobothrium Infection (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Aspects on the extracellular matrix and protonephridia in flatworms, with special reference to the tapeworm Diphyllobothrium dendriticum (reference)

  • The incidence of the broad fish tapeworm, Diphyllobothrium latum, in the human population of Finland (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM

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Egg of Diphyllobothrium latum. Credit: CDC.

Gravid proglottids of Diphyllobothrium latum. Cestode, tapeworm, parasite. Credit: CDC.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM

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Health

The cestode Diphyllobothrium latum (the fish or broad tapeworm), the largest human tapeworm. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

diphyllobothrium latum

8

diphyllobothrium

4

diphyllobothrium morfology

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM

Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-h-h-i-i-l-l-m-o-o-p-r-t-u-y"

-5 letters: timbrophily.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 49 50 48 59 4C 4C 4F 42 4F 54 48 52 49 55 4D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    ..    .--.    ....    -.--.    .-..    .-..    ---    -...    ---    -    ....    .-.    ..    ..-    --

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01001001 01010000 01001000 01011001 01001100 01001100 01001111 01000010 01001111 01010100 01001000 01010010 01001001 01010101 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#80 &#72 &#89 &#76 &#76 &#79 &#66 &#79 &#84 &#72 &#82 &#73 &#85 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0050 0048 0059 004C 004C 004F 0042 004F 0054 0048 0052 0049 0055 004D

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38435042594646493649544252435547

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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