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the wall of the intestine, the remainder hanging freely in the 

 interior. Towards the attached end the ribbon becomes very much 

 narrower than -it is towards the opposite end ; and at this narrower 



Fig. 191. — Taenia solium. Entire specimen, reduced ; cap. head. (After Leuckart.) 



extremity is a small, rounded, terminal knob, which is known as the 

 head or scohx ; 1 the rest of the animal is termed the body or 

 strobila ; the narrow part immediately behind the head is someJ 



1 Though very probable, it is not certain that this end of the Tape- Worm 

 actually corresponds to the anterior end in the Liver-Fluke, as will be explained 

 later. 



