- host's gut. The neck
continually produces proglottids, each one
containing a
reproductive tract;
mature proglottids are full of eggs, and fall off to leave...
- of the
continuously maturing proglottid chain,
there are
proglottids with
mature male
reproductive organs, then
proglottids with
mature female reproductive...
- the
gravid proglottids are
either p****ed out
through faecal matter, or
actively crawl out of the **** of the host. The
gravid proglottids once out of...
- 000
proglottids long with each
gravid proglottid containing 100,000 eggs,
while T. solium
contains about 1,000
proglottids with each
gravid proglottid containing...
- the
oldest gravid proglottids detach.
Unlike in
other Taenia,
gravid proglottids are shed individually. In some cases, the
proglottid ruptures inside the...
-
produces a
chain of
segments called proglottids via a
process known as strobilation. As a result, the most
mature proglottids are
furthest from the scolex....
- the
three distinct proglottids are
immature proglottids towards the neck,
mature proglottids in the middle, and
gravid proglottids at the
posterior end...
-
species such as D. latum, with more than 3,000
proglottids. One or
several of the tape-like
proglottid segments (hence the name tapeworm)
regularly detach...
- 3 mm to 6 mm and has
three proglottids ("segments") when intact—an
immature proglottid,
mature proglottid and a
gravid proglottid. The
average number of eggs...
- as many as 45,000
proglottids (segments). The
scolex (head) of the
tapeworm is
attached to the
lining of the gut and the
proglottids continuously develop...
