Disease or Syndrome
hymenolepiasis
Subclass of:
Cestode Infections
Definitions related to hymenolepiasis:
  • A parasitic infection caused by tapeworms. Most infected individuals do not have symptoms. When symptoms appear, they include diarrhea, abdominal pain, restlessness, and irritability.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Infection with tapeworms of the genus Hymenolepis.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • Hymenolepiasis is the most common intestinal tapeworm infection of humans caused by worm of family cestoda, genus hymenolepis and species nana. This infection does not require an intermediate host and infection can occur directly from one infected person to another by fecal-oral transmission.
    Medscape
    WebMD, 2025
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