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Bothriums

Bothriums (Greek bothrion – a hole, a groove) – the slit-like suckers located on a head of the parasitizing tape-worms by means of which they carry out fastening to a gut wall.

 
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Stomatologists appeared relatively recently. In the 19th century to pull out painful teeth belonged to duties of the ordinary hairdresser.