A variant or alternate form of cysticercus, referring to the larval tapeworm cyst stage.
Variant spelling of cysticercus, from Latin 'cystis' (cyst) + 'cercus' (tail). This older or regional scientific form preserves the same etymology with slightly different spelling conventions.
Different scientists and countries sometimes used different spellings for the same organism—finding old medical texts about parasites is like reading different 'dialects' of scientific Latin!
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