strobilization

Noun

1. Alternative form of strobilation.
   • The formation of the sexual Medusa form takes place by a kind of strobilization of the body of the fixed Scyphistoma. - 1880, Francis Maitland Balfour, A Treatise on Comparative Embryology - Volume 1, page 153:
   • 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...
   • 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. - 1968,...