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n. The knoblike anterior end of a tapeworm, having suckers or hooklike parts that in the adult stage serve as organs of attachment to the host on which the tapeworm is parasitic.

n. The structure at the rear end of a tapeworm which, in the adult, has suckers and hooks by which it attaches itself to a host.

n. 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.

n. One of the Scolecida.

n. PI. scoleces (skō˙-lē′ sēz), erroneously scolices (skol′ i-sēz). In Scolecida, the larva produced from the egg, which may by gemmation give rise to infertile deutoscoleces, or to ovigerous proglottides; the embryo of an entozoic worm, as a fluke or tape; a cystic worm or cysticercus; a hydatid. See cuts under Tænia.

n. [capitalized] An old genus of worms.

"Behind the scolex is the narrow neck which is proliferative (produces all each segment) and gives rise to the body segments called strobila."

echinococcus