Medical Definition of sparganum
: an intramuscular or subcutaneous vermiform parasite of various vertebrates including humans that is the plerocercoid larva of a tapeworm
—sometimes used as though a generic name when referring to such a larva Sparganum mansoni is the larva of Spirometra mansoni
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