Unit 5 Vocabulary: Flatworms and Roundworms

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End of the digestive tract, or gut, through which waste products of digestion are excreted, as distinct from the mouth.

The localization of neural control and sensory organs at the anterior end of an animal's body.

A parasite that lives on or attached to the host's surface.

Disfiguring condition caused by chronic infection with filarial worms Wuchereria bancrofti and Brugia malayi.

A parasite that lives within the tissues or bloodstream of its host.

Study of parasites (worms, protozoans, insects, etc.).

Cavity in the digestive tract between the mouth and the esophagus; may be muscular for sucking or swallowing.

Each segment in the strobila of a tapeworm, containing a complete sexually mature reproductive system.

The head of a tapeworm which bears suckers and hooks for attachment to a host.

an animal that lacks a coelom, or body cavity