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Definition of Taenia

1. Noun. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.

2. Noun. Tapeworms parasitic in humans which uses the pig as its intermediate host.

Definition of Taenia

1. Noun. A ribbon worn in the hair in ancient Greece. ¹

2. Noun. (architecture) A band between the frieze and architrave in the Doric order. ¹

3. Noun. (anatomy) Any ribbon-like band of tissue. ¹

4. Noun. (biology) A tapeworm, and similar worms of the genus ''Taenia''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Taenia

1. a headband worn in ancient Greece [n -NIAE or -NIAS]

Medical Definition of Taenia

1. Origin: L, a ribbon, a tapeworm. 1. A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm. 2. A band; a structural line; applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain. 3. The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Taenia

tadpoles tadpolish tads tadvance tae tae kwon do taed taedium taedium vitae taediums

taeing taekwondo taekwondos tael taels taenia (current term) taenia saginata taenia solium taeniacide taeniada

taeniae taenias taeniases taeniasis taeniata taeniate taenicide taenicides taenidia taenidium

Literary usage of Taenia

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

1. Anatomy of the Invertebrata by Carl Th. Ernst Siebold (1874)
"taenia, it is a reservoir, composed of numerous ramified coeca, ... The eggs of taenia have a very different structure ; the envelope is colorless, ..."

2. Anatomy of the Invertebrata by Carl Th. Ernst Siebold (1874)
"taenia, it is a reservoir, composed of numerous ramified ... The eggs of taenia have a very different structure ; the envelope is colorless, ..."

3. The Nomenclature of Diseases by Royal College of Physicians of London (1906)
"Habitat: Solid organs and tissues. , 45. taenia saginata Goeze. ... Synonyms, E. polymor- phus, Hydatid or cystic form of the taenia echino- coccus. ..."

4. Journal of the Society of Arts by Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1866)
"The cycle of the life of the taenia grandis, then, is completed in three animals. The first animal, a man, harbours a taenia, which produces from 6 to 8 ..."

5. Diseases of the Dog and Their Treatment by Georg Alfred Müller, Alexander Glass (1911)
"This taenia is generally about 40 cm. long, although in rare instances it may be 1 m. ... This is the smallest taenia of the dog, most dangerous to man. ..."

6. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Lewellys Franklin Barker, Milton Howard Fussell, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"Comparison of Segments of taenia paginate, taenia sollum. and ... (d) The Fat Tapeworm (taenia saginata) ..."

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