Proglottide

Japanese: proglottide
Proglottide

…Adult worms that parasitize the human body usually live in the intestines of humans, causing abdominal pain, diarrhea, and nutritional disorders. All of these are multi-segmented worms, consisting of one scolex and several to several thousand proglottides, some of which can reach a total length of 10 meters. Some of them resemble Sanada-himo (a string made of Japanese string), so around the Edo period when this string came into common use, worms came to be called tapeworms. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "proglottide" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…人体寄生のものは,成虫が通常ヒトの腸管内に寄生して,腹痛や下痢,栄養障害などを起こす。これらはすべて多節ジョウチュウで,1個の頭節scolexと数個ないし数千個の片節(体節)proglottideとからなり,全長10mに達するものがある。それらのあるものは真田紐(さなだひも)に似ているところから,この紐が一般に使用されるようになった江戸時代ころから,ジョウチュウはサナダムシと呼ばれるようになったという。…

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