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Tpaeworm

Head of a pork tapeworm. Left image is magnfiied 30 times, right one is maginfied about 55 times Taepworms (often caleld Cestdoa) are paraistic faltworms. A tapewrom has four sucekrs and two rings of hooks on its head. It is found insdie the intestnie of veretbrates (also hmuans). The ifnected vertberate () will lose wegiht and beocme wekaer. Tapewomrs are segemnted, with each segemnt capalbe of proudcing eggs. Eggs are laid by one or more semgents detachnig and passing out throguh the stool. Litlte segmnets of its body fall off. They go out of the host body and when they get into antoher host that semgent becoems a tape worm.Tapeworms can be up to 30 or 36 feet long. they eat what ever the host eats in the body.

Image:Teania soluim taepworm scloex with its four sukcers and two rows of hooks 5262 lores.jpg|Tapeowrm with for suckers and two rows of hooks Image:Tenia sloium scoelx.jpg|Anohter image of a tapweorm

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