| Diphyllobothrium latum | The broad or broad fish tapeworm, a species that causes diphyllobothriasis, found in man and fish-eating mammals in many parts of northern Europe, Japan and elsewhere in Asia, and in Scandinavian populations of the American north central states; it often has 3 or 4 thousand segments, broader than long; the head has typical bothria characteristic of the genus. Synonym: Dibothriocephalus latus. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Diphyllobothrium linguloides | A species of pseudophyllid tapeworms of wild and feral cats, the larval form of which (sparganum) may survive in human tissues; it has been commonly found in humans in the Orient, but is also reported from widely scattered areas elsewhere; infection of humans with the sparganum occurs from active migration of the larva from freshly split infected frogs used as a poultice for wounds, sore eyes (as in ocular sparganosis>), bruises, or ulcerations; it is also likely that humans may be infected with sparganum larvae from eating any vertebrate harboring these plerocercoids. Synonym: Diphyllobothrium linguloides, Diphyllobothrium mansoni. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Diphyllobothrium mansoni | A species of pseudophyllid tapeworms of wild and feral cats, the larval form of which (sparganum) may survive in human tissues; it has been commonly found in humans in the Orient, but is also reported from widely scattered areas elsewhere; infection of humans with the sparganum occurs from active migration of the larva from freshly split infected frogs used as a poultice for wounds, sore eyes (as in ocular sparganosis>), bruises, or ulcerations; it is also likely that humans may be infected with sparganum larvae from eating any vertebrate harboring these plerocercoids. Synonym: Diphyllobothrium linguloides, Diphyllobothrium mansoni. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Diphyllobothrium mansonoides | A species of pseudophyllid tapeworms from North America, whose larva (sparganum) may be a cause of sparganosis of man in Florida and the Gulf States. Synonym: Diphyllobothrium mansonoides. (05 Mar 2000) |
| diphyllous | <botany> Having two leaves, as a calyx, etc. Origin: Gr. = twice + leaf: cf. F. Diphylle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| diphyodont | <anatomy> Having two successive sets of teeth (deciduous and permanent), one succeeding the other; as, a diphyodont mammal; diphyodont dentition; opposed to monophyodont. An animal having two successive sets of teeth. Origin: Gr. Double (= twice + to produce) +, tooth. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| diphyozooid | <zoology> One of the free-swimming sexual zooids of Siphonophora. Origin: Gr. Of double from + E. Zooid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |