taenia
IPA: tˈeɪniʌ
noun
- (historical) A ribbon worn in the hair in ancient Greece.
- (architecture, Doric architecture) A band between the frieze and architrave in the Doric order.
- (anatomy) Any of several ribbon-like bands of tissue.
- (biology) Any species of the genus Taenia of tapeworms.
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Examples of "taenia" in Sentences
- Apres tu t'changes en taenia géant et tu dois te faire tuer par des survivants d'un naufrage!!
- Male fern (Aspidium filix-mas) is the primary herb of choice for the treatment of tapeworms (taenia).
- The height of the architrave, including taenia and guttae, is one module, and of the taenia, one seventh of a module.
- When contacted, Prof Atul Agarwal of CSMMU's neurology department said, NCC is caused by a tape worm called taenia solium.
- The guttae, extending as wide as the triglyphs and beneath the taenia, should hang down for one sixth of a module, including their regula.
- Windward coast, who as strict Moslem will not drink fermented liquors, hold a cup of rum to be the sovereignest thing in the world for taenia.
- Cattle and pigs are intermediate hosts of taenia The transmission cycle involves the contamination of soil and forage by human excrete, then the ingestion of undercooked meat by humans.
- The species mentioned specifically are lumbrici and ascarides or cucubitini, though the terms long, round, short and broad are also employed, and probably include the tape worm or taenia lata.
- The majority of pathogens exhibit survival periods which are normally shorter than the growth periods of most vegetables exceptions being the eggs of ascaris or taenia saginata, and the salmonella on root and low growing crops.
- These small tapeworm cysts (taenia saginata) are about the size of a pea and found in the flesh of cattle, which become infected by eating food or drinking water which has been contaminated by the feces of persons harboring adult tapeworms.
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