cystocrinidæ

pl. [Mod. Lat. cysto crin(um) (q. v.), and fem. pl. adj. suff. -ide.] Zool.: A family of Crinoidea. The body is round such stages are recognized (1) the ovum, or egg; or oval, and formed of numerous calcareous plates. (2) the pro scolex, or minute embryo liberated from The Cystocrinide were attached by short stalks. the egg; the scolex, or half-developed animal encysted within a cavity in the ti ues of the animal on which it is parasitic; (4) the strobila, or mature krinon =a lily.] çys-to-cri-nus, s. [Gr. kystis a bladder, and Zool.: A genus of Crinoidea, the typical one of the çys-to-çyte, s. [Gr. kystis a bladder, kytos a tapeworm. ( Nicholson .) Cystic worms are thus tapeworms in the third of the above-mentioned family Cystocrinide (q. v.). stages of growth. A curious fact about them is, as a rule, that they do not inhabit the same animal cell.] Biol. One of the bladder-like cells of the during their early life that they will prey upon when cystenchyma. they reach maturity. In their mature state they are called cestoid instead of cystic worms.