Lexic.us

Definition of Taeniidae

1. Noun. A family of Cestoda.

Medical Definition of Taeniidae

1. A family of parasitic cestodes (order Cyclophyllidea) that includes the genera Taenia, Taeniarhynchus, Multiceps, and Echinococcus. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Taeniidae

Literary usage of Taeniidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Animal Parasites and Human Disease by Asa Crawford Chandler (1918)
"Family Taeniidae Beef Tapeworm. — The commonest human tapeworm in most parts of the world is the beef tapeworm, ..."

2. Animal Parasites and Human Disease by Asa Crawford Chandler (1922)
"The latter family also differs from the Taeniidae in having eggs with lids like those of the flukes (Fig. 88A), and without developed embryos when passed in ..."

3. The Inspection of Meats for Animal Parasites by Albert Hassall, Charles Wardell Stiles, D. E. Salmon, United States Bureau of Animal Industry (1898)
"Family Taeniidae. In cattle aud sheep we find both of the stages of tapeworms ... Tapeworms of the family Taeniidae possess the following characters: The ..."

4. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederick Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1896)
"The. following classification, which, so far as the Taeniidae are concerned, follows that employed by ..."

5. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1901)
"Taeniidae. Scolex globular or pyriform ; suckers unarmed ; rostellum may or may not be armed ; vagina elongated, posterior to the cirrus; mostly parasitic ..."

6. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1913)
"... Taeniidae Fasciolopsis Dicrocoelium Paragonimus Opisthorchis Clonorchis ... Two larval Taeniidae are found in man (Cysticercus cellulosae and Echino- ..."

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