taenia
Americannoun
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Classical Antiquity. a headband or fillet.
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Architecture. (on a Doric entablature) a fillet or band separating the frieze from the architrave.
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Anatomy. a ribbonlike structure, as certain bands of white nerve fibers in the brain.
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any tapeworm of the genus Taenia, parasitic in humans and other mammals.
noun
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(in ancient Greece) a narrow fillet or headband for the hair
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architect the fillet between the architrave and frieze of a Doric entablature
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anatomy any bandlike structure or part
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any tapeworm of the genus Taenia, such as T. soleum, a parasite of man that uses the pig as its intermediate host
Etymology
Origin of taenia
First recorded in 1555–65; from Latin, from Greek tainía “band, ribbon”; taenia defs. 4 is from New Latin, Latin, as above
Example Sentences
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The guttae, extending as wide as the triglyphs and beneath the taenia, should hang down for one sixth of a module, including their regula.
From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
The peculiar effects of a tapeworm are exaggerated appetite and thirst, nausea, headaches, vertigo, ocular symptoms, cardiac palpitation, and Mursinna has even observed a case of trismus, or lockjaw, due to taenia solium.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
The hair was yellow, and the taenia was painted with a white pattern on a red 53 ground.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.
A piece of bronze, which is fixed in the marble about the middle of the left thigh, may have served for the attachment of a metallic object, perhaps a taenia held in the left hand.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.
He has long hair, bound with a taenia, and a long pointed beard.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.
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