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Gabon (oh) and bothrium (medicine)


Gabon (oh)



a country in west central Africa on the Atlantic Ocean. Population: 1,221,000 (2001). Capital: Libreville.
-- Gabonese n adj

bothrium (medicine)


bothrium


One of the slitlike sucking grooves found on the scolex of pseudophyllidean tapeworms, such as the broad fish tapeworm of man, Diphyllobothrium latum.

Origin: G. Bothros, pit or trench