strobilization

English

Noun

strobilization (countable and uncountable, plural strobilizations)

1. Alternative form of strobilation
   • 1880, Francis Maitland Balfour, A Treatise on Comparative Embryology - Volume 1, page 153:

     The formation of the sexual Medusa form takes place by a kind of strobilization of the body of the fixed Scyphistoma.

   • 1959, Parasites and Diseases of Kansas Coyotes, page 6:

     The worms were sorted into three groups: 1) “scoleces,” constituting all individuals from newly ingested to those with distinct strobilizations; 2) “immature,” including all tapes from early strobilization to those with distinct genital pores ...

   • 1968, Advances in Parasitology - Volume 7, →ISBN, page 343:

     The resultant materials may provide some essential metabolites, or they may be stimulatory and initiate the process of strobilization by means of an "organizer", possibly through some neurosecretory mechanism.