See Also: cercomer(medicine)
INCIPITUR, practice(law)

INCIPITUR, practice (law) and cercomer (medicine)


INCIPITUR, practice (law)


INCIPITUR, practice. This word, which means "it is begun," signifies the commencement of the entry on the roll. on signing judgment,

cercomer (medicine)


cercomer


The caudal appendage of a larval cestode, the procercoid stage of pseudophyllid cestodes; it may also be found on the cysticercoid larvae of taenioid cestodes, as well as in many of the hymenolepidids (e.g., Hymenolepis nana). This appendage frequently bears the hooks originally used by the hexacanth in clawing its way into the intermediate host in which the procercoid or Other larval stage develops.

Origin: G. Kerkos, tail + meros, part