SCOLEX

Definitions: SCOLEX

SCOLEX

Noun

1. One of the Scolecida.

2. The embryo produced directly from the egg in a metagenetic series, especially the larva of a tapeworm or other parasitic worm. See Illust. of Echinococcus.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Specialty Definitions: SCOLEX

Domain	Definitions
Biology & Biotechnology	The head or attachement organ of the adult tapeworm. Source: European Union. (references)
Health	The head or attachment organ of the adult tapeworm. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Photo Album: SCOLEX

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Echinococcus scolex from hydatid cyst. Tapeworm, parasite.Credit: CDC.		Hymenolepis diminuta scolex. Parasite.Credit: CDC.
	Scolex of Taenia solium. Cestode, tapeworm, parasite.Credit: CDC.		Scolex of Echinococcus granulosus from hydatid cyst. Parasite.Credit: CDC.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translations: SCOLEX

Language		Translations for "SCOLEX"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		scolex, hovedet af baendelorm. (various references)

Dutch		solex, appendix vermiformis, appendix vermicularis. (various references)

French		scolex. (various references)

German		Scolex. (various references)

Italian		scolice. (various references)

Pig Latin		olexscay

Portuguese		escólex. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Rhyming with "SCOLEX"

Anagrams: SCOLEX

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-l-o-s-x"
	-1 letter: close, coles, coxes, loxes, socle.
	-2 letters: cels, cole, cols, lose, oles, oxes, sloe, sole.
	-3 letters: cel, col, cos, cox, els, lex, lox, oes, ole, ose, sec, sel, sex, sol, sox.
	-4 letters: el, es, ex, lo, oe, os, ox, so.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-l-o-s-x"
	+2 letters: lexicons.
	+3 letters: acetoxyls, coalboxes, complexes, confluxes, coxalgies, excelsior, exclusion, lockboxes.
	+4 letters: complexest, excelsiors, excisional, exclusions, microluxes, postexilic.
	+5 letters: carboxylase, complexions, complexness, contextless, exonuclease, explicators, sociosexual.
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