noun
- The larval stage of certain tapeworms, consisting of a small bladder containing an invaginated scolex, found in intermediate hosts.
Usage: technical; parasitology
Examples
- The cysticercoid develops in the body cavity of insects that serve as intermediate hosts.
- Researchers identified cysticercoids in the tissue samples of infected beetles.
- The tapeworm's cysticercoid stage is crucial to its life cycle transmission.
- When a definitive host ingests an intermediate host containing cysticercoids, infection occurs.
- Microscopic examination revealed multiple cysticercoids in the arthropod specimens.