How to Use tapeworm in a Sentence
tapeworm
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The Post's Sarah Kaplan put it best: The life of a tapeworm unfolds over three stages.
—Lindsey Bever, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2018
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If the worker dies before then, the tapeworm dies with it.
—Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
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Both dogs got tapeworm—which was disgusting—and had to stay out in the yard till the pills went to work.
—T. Coraghessan Boyle, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
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Segments of tapeworm detach and are passed via the stool.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2017
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The tapeworm-laden ants didn’t just outlive their siblings, the team found.
—Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 18 May 2021
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Wrapped around it is, of course, this giant, long — what looks like a flat tapeworm, just sitting in there.
—Jamie Ducharme, Time, 19 Jan. 2018
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So far, the research team has isolated five tapeworm eggs from the muck.
—Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
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So far, the research team has isolated five tapeworm eggs from the muck.
—Smithsonian, 29 July 2017
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Also, talk to your vet about treating for tapeworms; pets with fleas are at risk.
—Karen Asp, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Apr. 2020
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The ghastly glow of a tapeworm lights up one image, the fuzz of mold emerges from a tomato in another.
—Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 4 Oct. 2017
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Bahn brought the tapeworm, wrapped around a cardboard toilet-paper roll, with him.
—Stephen Ruiz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 Jan. 2018
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One of the most common parasites, fleas, has tapeworm eggs.
—Doggie Corp, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Oct. 2022
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One of them—a tapeworm Gardner fished out of a camas pocket gopher—turned out to be a species new to science.
—Amy Brady, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2022
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Sure enough, there was a tapeworm wrapped around a cardboard toilet paper tube.
—Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2018
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The other drug is niclosamide, used to treat tapeworms and other parasites.
—Kai Kupferschmidt, Science | AAAS, 28 Apr. 2020
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The defense tactic has worked for the hagfish, an eel-like animal that looks like an oversized tapeworm.
—Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 15 Dec. 2017
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In 2014, for instance, a tapeworm species foreign to humans was found in a man’s brain in China, leading to seizures and inflammation of the brain.
—Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 7 Sep. 2017
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Some of the cats had health issues, however; some were pregnant, others were skinny or had fleas and tapeworms.
—Libby Solomon, baltimoresun.com, 4 June 2019
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In the case of the Massachusetts man, Boston doctors saw a case of a tapeworm that was still affecting him decades later.
—Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2021
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This was a tiny tapeworm, about a quarter of an inch long: Echinococcus granulosus.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2023
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By lengthening the life of the worker by years, the tapeworm improves the odds that a woodpecker will eventually show up.
—Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 10 Jan. 2023
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Usually, someone has to swallow eggs found in the feces of a person who has an intestinal tapeworm to end up in such a state.
—Aj Willingham, CNN, 30 Dec. 2020
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If your dog eats a flea that’s carrying a tapeworm larva, the tapeworm—a type of parasite—can transfer to their body and appear in your dog’s stool.
—Shelby Deering, Good Housekeeping, 4 Aug. 2021
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One canine coprolite contained the eggs of fish tapeworm, so the dog would have consumed raw freshwater fish at some point.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 May 2022
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The lifts must no longer be hidden away like tapeworms in the niches of stairwells; the stairwells themselves, rendered useless, must be abolished, and the lifts must scale the lengths of the façades like serpents of steel and glass.
—Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 11 Nov. 2008
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The patient was admitted to the hospital, where an MRI and other tests confirmed these masses weren’t cysts, but were the larvae of tapeworms.
—Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 11 Mar. 2024
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Question: There have been some pretty gruesome emergencies this season, like the guy who gets burned in a tanning bed and the man with a 7-foot tapeworm inside him.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2018
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Fleas can also transmit diseases, as well as tapeworms.
—The Editors, Field & Stream, 3 Mar. 2020
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Other riverside residents have suffered seizures caused by tapeworms three to six millimeters wide in the walls of their brains.
—Preetika Rana, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2017
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There are several parasites that can do damage in the human brain, but the most common in the Americas is the pork tapeworm, Taenia solium.
—Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
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