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Definition of Tenia
1. Noun. A narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband.
Definition of Tenia
1. n. See Tænia.
Definition of Tenia
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of taenia) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tenia
1. a tapeworm [n -NIAE or -NIAS] - See also: tapeworm
Medical Definition of Tenia
1. 1. Any anatomical bandlike structure. Synonym: taenia. Origin: L. Fr. G. Tainia, band, tape, a tapeworm (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenia
Literary usage of Tenia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"has made observations of a number of cases in which several tenia» existed ...
Davidc speaks of the expulsion of five tenia? bv the ingestion of a quantity ..."
2. Gould and Pyle's Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine and Surgery: With ...by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle, Richard John Ernst Scott by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle, Richard John Ernst Scott (1912)
"The bothriocephalus latus (fish tape- worm, tenia lata), abo an "unarmed tapeworm,"
... This worm is larger than the tenia solium and the tenia saginata, ..."
3. Pediatrics: The Hygienic and Medical Treatment of Children by Thomas Morgan Rotch (1896)
"Two forms of tenia? occur in children. One of these is the tenia ... It has a
blunter head than the tenia solium, and does not have the circle of hooks. ..."