strobilization
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[edit]Noun
[edit]strobilization (countable and uncountable, plural strobilizations)
- Alternative form of strobilation
- 1880, Francis Maitland Balfour, A Treatise on Comparative Embryology - Volume 1, page 153:
- The formation of the sexual Medusa form takes place by a kind of strobilization of the body of the fixed Scyphistoma.
- 1959, Parasites and Diseases of Kansas Coyotes, page 6:
- The worms were sorted into three groups: 1) “scoleces,” constituting all individuals from newly ingested to those with distinct strobilizations; 2) “immature,” including all tapes from early strobilization to those with distinct genital pores ...
- 1968, Advances in Parasitology - Volume 7, →ISBN, page 343:
- The resultant materials may provide some essential metabolites, or they may be stimulatory and initiate the process of strobilization by means of an "organizer", possibly through some neurosecretory mechanism.