Nematoda Definition

Nematoda Sentence Examples

• The Nematoda which are parasitic during their whole life may similarly be divided into two classes - those which undergo their development in a single host, and those which undergo their development in the bodies of two distinct hosts.

• Indeed Mechnikov, to whom we owe much of our knowledge of these forms, calls them "creeping Nematoda."

• The muscles are striated and arranged in four quadrants, two dorso-lateral and two ventro-lateral, an arrangement which recalls that of the Nematoda, whilst in their histology they somewhat resemble the muscles of the Oligochaeta.

• It has certain histological resemblances with the Nematoda and certain primitive Annelids, but little stress must be laid on these.

• The Nematomorpha form an isolated group; at first sight they seem to be connected with the Nematoda, but in reality their only common feature is the tubular genitalia opening into a cloaca, and it seems at present impossible to connect them with the Annelida.