The meaning of METACESTODE is a stage of a tapeworm occurring in an intermediate host : a larval tapeworm.
The ancient Greeks identified larval forms in meat, which they termed cysticerci (meaning “cyst tail”).1 By the early twentieth century, large case series had been published, identifying many clinical manifestations of cysticercosis. Only in the 1980s with the availability of neuroimaging...
The meaning of METACESTODE is a stage of a tapeworm occurring in an intermediate host : a larval tapeworm.