1. You will not be asked to write out a definition for these words, but you should be able to match the work with its definition, and in some case know which terms are specific for a specific group of parasites (e.g. axostyle is only found among the trichomonads (Order Trichomonadida)).
-accessory metacestode tissue
-acoelomate
-acraspedote
-autoinfection (relative to Taenia solium)
-bothria
-calcareous corpuscles
-cecum (trematode intestine)
-cercaria
-cirrus
-coenurus
-coracidium
-craspedote
-cysticercoid
-cysticercus
-cysticercus storms
-dioecious
-flame cell
-genital pore
-gid
-gynecophoral canal
-hermaphroditic
-hydatid cyst (unilocular and multilocular)
-masking (Schistosomes)
-Mehlis gland
-metacercaria
-metacestode
-microtriches
-miracidium
-neurocysticercosis
-oncosphere
-ootype
-operculum
-ovary
-oviduct
-ovum
-parauterine organ
-plerocercoid
-polyzoic
-praziquantel
-premunition
-procercoid
-proglottid
-protonephridia
-protoscolex
-redia
-rostellum
-schistosomula
-scolex
-seminal receptacle and vesicle
-sparganum
-sporocyst
-staggers
-strobila
-strobilocercus
-suckers
-swimmer's itch
-sylvatic life-cycle
-tegument
-testes
-tetrathyridium
-uterus
-vagina
-vas deferens and efferens
-vitellaria

2. Know the basic trematode (monogenean & digenean) and cestode life-cycles, and the variations described among both cycles.

3. For the parasites listed below that can infect humans during one or more stages of their life-cycle, be familiar with each life-cycle and general regional distribution; be able to give a few examples of symptoms, and how you would diagnosis and infection with each.
a. Schistosoma mansoni
b. S. japonicum
c. S. haematobium
d. Fasciola hepatica
e. Clinorchis sinensis
f. Paragonimus westermani
g. Diphyllobothrium latum
h. Spirometra mansonoides
i. Taenia saginata
j. Taenia solium
k. Echinococcus granulosus
l. E. multilocularis
m. Dipylidium caninum

4. For the parasites listed below that can infect our domestic canimals but are generally not zoonotic, be familar with each life-cycle and general regional distribution; be able to recognize the degree of pathology, and how you would diagnosis an infection with each.
a. Fascioloides magna
b. Dicrocoelium dendriticum
c. Paragonimus kellicotti
d. Mesocestoides corti
e. Taenia taeniaeformis
f. Taneia multiceps
g. Taenia pisiformis
 

5. Know the difference between:
a. miracidium and coracidium
b. sporocyst and redia
c. cercaria and metacercaria
d. cysticercus and coenurus and strobilocercus
e. procercoid and plerocercoid
f. multilocular hydatid cyst and unilocular hydatid cyst

6. How do you identify the eggs of:
a. Schistosoma mansoni
b. S. japonicum
c. S. haematobium
d. Diphyllobothrium latum
e. Taenia solium
f. Dipylidium caninum

7. Know the basic components of the male and female reproductive system for:
a. Digeneans
b. Cestodes

8. Describe differences between the following cestode groups relative to adult morphology and life-cycle:
a. Pseudophyllideans
b. Mesocestoideans
c. Cyclophyllideans

9. Explain why Taenia solium is more dangerous than T. saginata

10. Explain why Echinococcus multilocularis is more dangerous than E. granulosus

11. Why is the distribution of the various cyclophyllidean cestodes more extensive than the various pseudophyllidean cestodes?

12. How could you visually differentiate a trematode egg from a pseudophyllidean egg?

13. Be able to identify example of the following body forms:
a. distome
b. amphistome
c. monostome
d. gastrostome
e. holostome
f. echinostome
g. schistosome

14. What is the most important method used by adult schistosomes to evade the immune response? What stage is susceptible to damage by the immune system? In what organ does the immune system kill most of this susceptible stage?

15. Under normal circumstances, most people growing up in Schistosome endemic areas are infected with only a few worms in spite of the fact that they are exposed to cercaria are numerous occasions. Explain why.

16. Why can Dicrocoelium dendriticum utilize an entirely terrestrial life-cycle?

17. How is a parentenic host different from an intermediate host?

18. How do you typically become infected with a sparganum?

19. How is the 1st intermediate host of Pseudophyllidean tapeworms different from the 1st intermediate host of Mesocestoidean tapeworms?

20. Why does each Echinococcus stapeworm not need to produce as many eggs as each Taenia tapeworm?

21. Why can a tapeworm be refererred to as a colony; why can it be described as an individual?

22. Identify the true larval stage of cestodes.

23. Identify 5 cestodes found in dogs.

24. Why can Mesocestoides utilize a terrestrial life-cycle and still have a thin-shelled egg?

25. What distinctive characteristic does the tetrathyridium metacestode stage and the multilocular hydatid cyst have in common?

26. What type of host are cysticercoids found in?