GENERAL HISTOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Like other parasites, the mature tapeworm can only survive inside the host animal, feeding off of the host’s own nutrients. The head attaches to the inside of your intestines and absorbs nutrients from the food digesting there. Meanwhile, the body continues to grow and lay eggs.

Detailed explanation-2: -tapeworm, also called cestode, any member of the invertebrate class Cestoda (phylum Platyhelminthes), a group of parasitic flatworms containing about 5, 000 species.