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Cestodes (PPT) Flashcards

1
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Cestodes is otherwise known as:

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Tapeworms

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2
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Cestodes constitutes a class of

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Platyhelminthes

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3
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It is an anterior organ of attachment

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Scolex

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4
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A chain of segments also known as strobila

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Proglottids

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5
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It is elongated and protrusible structure situated in the center of the scolex

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Rostellum

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6
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It is the organ of growth

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Neck

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7
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Also known as false suckers

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Bothria

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8
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It is an elongated mid-ventral and mid-dorsal grooves found in the spindle-shaped scolices of Psuedophyllidean worms

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Bothria

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9
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Also known as true suckers

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Bothridia

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10
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It is a muscular projections from the scolex and may have leaf-like margins

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Bothridia

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11
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It is known as the ventral suckers

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Acetabulum

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12
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It is a cup-shaped sucking disk with muscular wall

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Acetabulum

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13
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Adult tapeworms maybe differentiated through the following features:

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  1. Scolices or proglottids
  2. Taxonomic features:
    - Scolex
    - Hooks
    - Rostellum
    - Internal morphology for proglottids
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14
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A living tissue (syncitial membrane) which serves as a protective and digestive organ

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Teguments

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15
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A minute microvilli which covers the tegument of the cestodes

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Mictrotriches

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16
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A layer of carbohydrates containing macromolecules

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glycocalyx

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17
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Inhibits host chymotrypsin, pancreatic lipase trypsin and to absorb bile salts

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glycocalyx

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18
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Muscle cells of cestodes are:

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  • are characteristically slow-contracting
  • Non-striated muscles and lacks T tubules
  • Contains myocytons
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19
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Secretions found in the parenchyma of cestodes

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Calcareous corpuscles

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20
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The calcareous corpuscles measures ____ um in diameter

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12-32

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21
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Calcareous corpuscles contains inorganic components such as:

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  • calcium
    -magnesium carbohydrates
  • calcium phosphate
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22
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It’s function is to hypothesized as being buffer against organic acids produced during metabolism

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Calcareous corpuscles

23
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Its function is as a depots for carbon dioxide and ion or they may be even excretory products

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Calcareous corpuscle

24
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Order Pseudophyllidea or Cyclophyllidea:

Scolex with bothria, with or without hooks

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Order Pseudophyllidea

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Order Pseudophyllidea or Cyclophyllidea:

Scolex: usually 4 suckers

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Order Cyclophyllidea

26
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Order Pseudophyllidea or Cyclophyllidea:

Neck: present or absent

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Order Pseudophyllidea

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Order Pseudophyllidea or Cyclophyllidea:

Rostellum: present or absent

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Order Cyclophyllidea

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Order Pseudophyllidea or Cyclophyllidea:

Strobila: varibale

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Order Pseudophyllidea

29
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Order Pseudophyllidea or Cyclophyllidea:

Strobila: usually with distinct segments, monoecious or rarely dioecious

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Order Cyclophyllidea

30
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Order Pseudophyllidea or Cyclophyllidea:

Proglottids: anapolytic

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Order Pseudophyllidea

31
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Order Pseudophyllidea or Cyclophyllidea:

Genital pore: lateral

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Order Cyclophyliidea

32
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Order Pseudophyllidea or Cyclophyllidea:

Gentical pore: lateral or dorsal

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Order Pseudophyllidea

33
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Order Pseudophyllidea or Cyclophyllidea:
Testes: numerous

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Order Pseudophyllidea

34
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Order Pseudophyllidea or Cyclophyllidea:

Vetilline gland compact, single, posterior to ovary

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Order Cyclophyllidea

35
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Order Pseudophyllidea or Cyclophyllidea:

Ovary: posterior, Vitellaria follicular, lateral or cortical and encircling other organ

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Order Pseudophyllidea

36
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Order Pseudophyllidea or Cyclophyllidea:

Uterine pore: absent

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Order Cyclophyllidea

37
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Order Pseudophyllidea or Cyclophyllidea:

Uterine pore: present

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Pseudophyllidea

38
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Order Pseudophyllidea or Cyclophyllidea:

Parasites of: amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals

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Cyclophyllidea

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Order Pseudophyllidea or Cyclophyllidea:

Parasite of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals

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Pseudophyllidea

40
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Important family of the order pseudophylidea

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Diphyllothriidea

41
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Order Pseudophyllidea or Cyclophyllidea:

False tapeworm

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Pseudophyllidea

42
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Order Pseudophyllidea or Cyclophyllidea:

True tapeworm

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Cyclophyllidea

43
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Order Pseudophyllidea or Cyclophyllidea:

example: D. latum

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Pseudophyllidea

44
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Order Pseudophyllidea or Cyclophyllidea:

example: all except D. latum

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Cyclophyllidea

45
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Order Pseudophyllidea or Cyclophyllidea:

scolex: spoon-shaped with slit-like sucking grooves called bothria

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Pseudophyllidea

46
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Order Pseudophyllidea or Cyclophyllidea:

With 4 cup-like suckers

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Cyclophyllidea

47
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Order Pseudophyllidea or Cyclophyllidea:

Anapolytic (don’t shed segments_

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Pseudophyllidea

48
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Order Pseudophyllidea or Cyclophyllidea:

Apolytic (shed segments)

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Cyclophyllidea

49
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Order Pseudophyllidea or Cyclophyllidea:

Ova: operculated, immature when land

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Pseudophyllidea

50
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Order Pseudophyllidea or Cyclophyllidea:

Ova: Non-operculated, embryonated

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Cyclophyllidea

51
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Larval stages of Pseudophyllidea

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  1. coracidium
  2. procercoid
  3. plerocercoid (IS)
52
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Larval stages of Cyclophyllidea

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  1. cysticercus
  2. cysticercoid
  3. hydatid
53
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Intermediate host of pseudophyllidea

54
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Intermediate host of cyclophyllidea

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